Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his… — Winston Churchill
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence… — John F. Kennedy
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the… — John Bates Clark
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose… — V.S. Naipaul
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the… — Robert Breault
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go… — Anna Friel
MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from… — Thomas Pynchon
If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. — Steven Tyler
Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before… — Louise Erdrich
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a… — Ray Bradbury
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.' — Denis Waitley
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. — Gavin MacLeod
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted… — Benicio Del Toro
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose… — Cory Doctorow
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. — Wright Morris
My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island. — Oscar de la Renta
The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. — Tim Bishop
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life… — Tim Bishop
Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district of the Big… — Jason Scott Lee
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real,… — Craig Ferguson
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first… — Carl Rogers
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the… — Stephen Hawking
Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as… — George Wein
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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