Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone,… — Ayrton Senna
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff,… — Richard Simmons
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. — Paul Simon
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise,… — Peter Singer
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely… — Wilbur Smith
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my… — Wilbur Smith
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air. — Angie Stone
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries… — Desmond Tutu
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. — Gary Vaynerchuk
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini… — Tom Waits
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our… — Vivienne Westwood
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of… — Sheldon Whitehouse
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. — Thornton Wilder
We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that… — Rainn Wilson
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new… — James Wolcott
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human… — Julian Baggini
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here… — Julian Baggini
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… — Martin Filler
I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one… — Chris Hardwick
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a… — H P Lovecraft
Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. — James M. Barrie
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be… — John Donne

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