Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hanks

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

Tom Hanks

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

Tom Coburn

We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.

Tom Waits

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

Richard Sherman

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Suzanne Vega

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Lincoln Chafee

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lenny Bruce

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

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.

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.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Stephenie Meyer

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

Stephen Chbosky

Welcome to the island of misfit toys

Tim Bishop

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

Tim Bishop

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

Tim Bishop

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

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.