Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on… — Lester Bangs
If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you… — William Jennings Bryan
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the… — Steven Weinberg
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it. — Maria Montessori
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for… — Miriam Toews
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over… — Unknown Author
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
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like… — Paolo Bacigalupi
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

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