Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]

Peter Arnett

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Garry Hynes

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

Lauren Conrad

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

John Lydon

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Elizabeth George

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

Josh Lucas

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9

Joshua Foer

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

John Keble

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

Gavin DeGraw

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.

Joseph Goebbels

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Julian Huxley

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.

Judy Garland

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

Paul Theroux

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

Maggie Stiefvater

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

Meg Cabot

I've never even been to Long Island

Meg Cabot

I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.

Matthew McConaughey

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Rick Riordan

Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

Paul McCartney

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

Paul Wesley

Id like to live in the Greek islands

Peter Hain

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Phyllis Schlafly

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Thomas Sowell

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Robert Lanza

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

Riccardo Muti

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.