Charlie-chan Quote by Earl Derr Biggers

“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years…

— John Steinbeck

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had…

— Agatha Christie

“I lost life over the pacific in a sea of regrets.”

— Charles Stokes

“Honolulu represents the worst of all that. Yet every time I fly in, anticipation begins to build just about the time I think I'll…

— Ellen Hopkins

“back. “WHERE ARE YOUR FEET?” “IN THE KITCHEN!” The Thomas/Brewer family was in total, utter chaos. It was 11:00 A.M. on the Sunday before…

— Ann M. Martin

“Oh, he was definitely doable. Did Hawaiians have the saying “Save a surfboard, ride a surfer”?”

— Gina L. Maxwell

“Japanese had reported sinking her so many times that she had acquired an additional sobriquet, “the Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast.”

— William F. Halsey

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was…

— Terry Pratchett

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

“He washed up on a desert island, where he incurred the most remarkable series of mishaps that somehow kept turning out for the best.…

— David Bromige

“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the impossible. That…

— Ben Marcus

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

— Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov