Quotes about islands
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
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
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
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
islands news yorktown
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
islands self littles
When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. J. C. Chandor
islands movement people risk
... because there's a lot of movement of people between the islands in the region, there is a risk of it spreading.
islands giving meditation
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence. Paul McCartney
islands greek
Id like to live in the Greek islands Paul Wesley
islands support nuclear
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. Peter Hain
islands achievement united-states
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. Phyllis Schlafly
islands location pacific-northwest
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. Elizabeth George
islands income pay
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. Lawrence O'Donnell
islands people people-in-your-life
Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life. Lauren Conrad
islands different truth-is
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough. Maggie Stiefvater
islands ebb-and-flow immigration
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. John Lydon
islands south-carolina coast
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9 Josh Lucas
islands brooklyn back-when
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. Joshua Foer
islands sight years
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. John Keble
islands people ordinary
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. Joseph Goebbels
islands rivers lakes
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. Julian Huxley
islands fire rainbow
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast. Judy Garland
islands pieces geography
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. Paul Theroux
islands self world
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.
islands goal canada
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. Nicholas Lea
islands erosion wetlands
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. Mortimer Zuckerman
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