Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Id like to live in the Greek islands — Paul Wesley
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go… — William S. Burroughs
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people… — Jodie Foster
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical… — Unknown Author
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the… — Frederic Farrar
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. — Luke Rhinehart
I know enough about the moon to know how unpleasant and inhospitable it is. . . . I know enough about Mars to know that… — Wally Schirra
The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night. — Dave Ramsey
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will… — Nicholas Stern
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
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
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because… — Paul Theroux
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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