Quotes about islands
islands wish desert
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... George Bernard Shaw
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 jace unlikely
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. Cassandra Clare
islands borders wandering-around
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. Julian Baggini
islands together realization
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. Huston Smith
islands keys paradise
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. Gloria Swanson
islands wonder shoreline
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
islands house solitude
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own. Lillian Hellman
islands cinema wonderful
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' Leos Carax
islands doe kind
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. Muhammad Iqbal
islands insanity insane
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. Nellie Bly
islands insane asylums
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
islands temptation knows
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Kathy Griffin
islands mind desert
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. Margaret Atwood
islands lessons littles
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. P. J. O'Rourke
islands england massachusetts
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. Paul Cellucci
islands imagination people
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. Michael D. Higgins
islands long vodka
It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. Nicole Polizzi
islands space four
I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic. Matthew Fox
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 shy veils
In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder. Reserved, shy, but full of significance, it hid whatever it might hold behind a veil, keeping it till the hour should come, and, with the hour, those who were called and chosen. Kenneth Grahame
islands england englishmen
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. Novalis
islands curious seattle
Seattle is this curious liberal island. Jonathan Raban
islands i-realized get-back
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back? Jonathan Safran Foer
islands boat
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. Napoleon Hill
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 people three
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. Mason Cooley
islands bird desert
A bird, music and food -desert island items Michael Johnson
islands perfect empires
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. Malcolm Muggeridge
islands rate rounds
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. James M. Barrie
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
islands bridges soul
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined. Rainer Maria Rilke
islands sea excellence
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. John W. Gardner