Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Chandor

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

... because there's a lot of movement of people between the islands in the region, there is a risk of it spreading.

Bernie Sanders

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.

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Roger Sherman

I've been telling people there are seven islands in Island County. And people were telling me, 'No, there's six.

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.

The three island projects are already sold out.

Sonny Rollins

'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.

It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years.

Herman Melville

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.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Jerry Seinfeld

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.

Jeanette Winterson

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.

Jerry Lawler

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Englishmen must have an island.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Esperanza Spalding

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.

Gretel Ehrlich

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

Godfried Danneels

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.

Gerald Durrell

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Guy Gavriel Kay

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

George Bernard Shaw

She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

Fanny Kemble

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Cassandra Clare

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Now it looks like nature is reversing the process. I wouldn't be surprised if we have an island again.

You're out there on an island all by yourself,

Julian Baggini

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Huston Smith

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

Gloria Swanson

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Huston Smith

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Lillian Hellman

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

Leos Carax

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

Muhammad Iqbal

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.