Quotes about island
islands mixtures ellis-island
I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish. Gavin DeGraw
islands intellectual culture
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me. Orhan Pamuk
islands england englishmen
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. Novalis
islands civilization long
Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me. John Hodgman
island
You're out there on an island all by yourself,
island remote studied
It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years.
islands maps west
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville
islands imagination mysterious
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me. Henry David Thoreau
islands needs care
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there. Esperanza Spalding
islands jace unlikely
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. Cassandra Clare
islands air rhode-island
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels Jerry Lawler
islands light what-matters
We’re all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn’t matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on. Jerry Seinfeld
islands needs desert
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. George C. Scott
islands choices done
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life. Jeanette Winterson
islands sugar mills
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. Fanny Kemble
islands departure reminders
Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures. Gretel Ehrlich
islands civilization doubt
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. Godfried Danneels
islands magic pollen
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Gerald Durrell
islands world another-world
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world. Guy Gavriel Kay
islands wish desert
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... George Bernard Shaw
island looks nature surprised
Now it looks like nature is reversing the process. I wouldn't be surprised if we have an island again.
island projects sold three
The three island projects are already sold out.
islands guy dollars
When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage. Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens. Bernie Sanders
island middle serve service talking towns
We've been talking with them for months. They are an island in the middle of our service territory. We serve all the towns adjacent to Rochester.
islands people seven telling
I've been telling people there are seven islands in Island County. And people were telling me, 'No, there's six. Roger Sherman
island midway post staging
The island was a midway staging post for piracy, Mark Burnett
island sort
'St. Thomas' is actually an island melody, sort of a traditional island melody, so all I did was sort of make my arrangement on it. Sonny Rollins
island people poll shut
If you did a poll of Rhode Island people, ... they don't want people to be cold, they don't want people to be shut off. Henry Shelton
islands wonder shoreline
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Huston Smith
islands englishmen
Englishmen must have an island. F. Scott Fitzgerald
islands light air
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.
islands hawaii determine
Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii. Jack London
islands may solomon
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. Jack Adams