Islands Quotes

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

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.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.

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.''

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

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this, ' she said.

Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.

Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn