Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of… — Neil Gaiman
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell
I've never even been to Long Island — Meg Cabot
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me. — Laurie Anderson
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate… — Bernard Malamud
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in… — Karen Chance
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I… — Paul Simon
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story… — Stephen King
By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned… — Cassandra Clare
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he… — Margaret Atwood
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we… — Jose Saramago
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. — Albert Einstein
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater… — Clive Cussler
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is… — Sophie Scholl
You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea. — Jason Mraz
Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I… — Scott O'Dell
I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long… — Meg Cabot
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression. — Rick Riordan
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back? — Jonathan Safran Foer
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the fact… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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