Quotes about islands
islands choices done
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life. Jeanette Winterson
islands air rhode-island
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels Jerry Lawler
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 needs care
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there. Esperanza Spalding
islands departure reminders
Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures. Gretel Ehrlich
islands civilization doubt
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. Godfried Danneels
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 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 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 odd-things odd
The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island. Garry Hynes
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 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 location pacific-northwest
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. Elizabeth George