Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to. — Peter Arnett
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. — Peter Hain
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia. — Richard Stallman
You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection… — Bill Bryson
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived… — John Gibson Paton
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to… — Roy Barnes
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the… — Leonard Sweet
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science… — Damon Knight
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island… — Rajneesh
I know enough to know that no man is an island. — Richard Branson
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm
A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. — Nathaniel Branden
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? — Wyndham Lewis
Seattle is this curious liberal island. — Jonathan Raban
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. — Greg Egan
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. — Kathy Griffin
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes… — Wilfred Burchett
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as… — Ambrose Bierce
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these… — Billy Bragg
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,… — Derek Walcott

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