Islands Quotes

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

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

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

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

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

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

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.

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.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

I grew up on a tiny little island.