Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George… — Andrew Roberts
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no… — Jacque Fresco
There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're… — Jacque Fresco
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a… — Philip Gourevitch
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two… — Bartolome de las Casas
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it… — Walker Percy
There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the… — Michael Lewis
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. — Paul Mazursky
Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a… — Howard E. Koch
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and… — Mohamed Nasheed
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. — Donald L. Carcieri
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! — Donald L. Carcieri
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. — Patrick McGoohan
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… — John Millington Synge
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles
I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will… — Unknown Author
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. — Fanny Kemble
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have… — Kris Radish
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. — John Carmack
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The… — Paul Rudnick
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state… — Alain de Botton

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