Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We… — Bobby Jindal
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist.… — Jon Bon Jovi
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. — Oliver Kahn
Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and… — Ashton Kutcher
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has… — Robert Lanza
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did… — Rush Limbaugh
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island,… — John Lydon
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. — John Lydon
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts… — Seth MacFarlane
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything,… — Matthew McConaughey
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in… — Christopher Moore
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. — Bill O'Reilly
Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head,… — Susan Orlean
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to… — Donny Osmond
Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1… — David Oyelowo
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. — Michael Palin
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to… — Shimon Peres
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in… — Richard Pryor
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that… — Dan Quayle
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry… — Daniel Radcliffe
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. — Salman Rushdie
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. — Phyllis Schlafly

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