Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

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.]

Henry Rollins

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

John W. Gardner

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Frederick Soddy

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

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.

Johnny Depp

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Nicholas Lea

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Mortimer Zuckerman

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.

Peter Arnett

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

Elizabeth George

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

John Hodgman

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.

Garry Hynes

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

James M. Barrie

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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 Lydon

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

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.

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

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.

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.

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.'