Islands Quotes

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

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

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.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

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

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

Id like to live in the Greek islands

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

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

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

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.