Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

Joseph Goebbels

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.

Julian Huxley

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.

Judy Garland

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

Paul Theroux

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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.

Lillian Hellman

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

Leos Carax

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Nellie Bly

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

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.

Kathy Griffin

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

Margaret Atwood

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Paul Cellucci

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

Michael D. Higgins

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.

Nicole Polizzi

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Matthew Fox

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.

George C. Scott

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

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.

Vito Fossella

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Yancy Butler

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Wyndham Lewis

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?