Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Benicio Del Toro

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 island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Elizabeth Pena

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Austin Grossman

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

Herman Melville

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Marianne Moore

Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

Tite Kubo

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Mahatma Gandhi

Charkha is an instrument of service.

Logan Lerman

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Isaac Barrow

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.