Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters.… — Bill Murray
I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my… — Armie Hammer
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh… — Marg Helgenberger
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9 — Josh Lucas
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. — Foxy Brown
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire… — Jeremy Northam
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image… — Brigitte Bardot
Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald
I grew up on a tiny little island. — Samantha Barks
We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it… — Newt Gingrich
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so… — Unknown Author
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the… — Larry Mullen, Jr.
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Unknown Author
Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. — George Will
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the… — Mercy Otis Warren
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from… — Ian Paisley
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in… — W. E. B. Du Bois
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of… — Thom Yorke
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess… — David Blaine

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