On The Island Quotes
I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.
I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
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.
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.
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.
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?
The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends
I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.
No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
Tell me you spotted a condom tree over to the right by the stream of lube.
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...
If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love.
Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.
Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.
Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.
You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
No one leaves this hidden treasure, Feeling the same way they came, They always refer their friends to this Gem, This island with a beautiful name, My beautiful “Bim”—Barbados
There are thousands of ways to get rich, but there is only one way to reach the island of happiness. You need unconditional love to reach that island.
It was the inverse of an island in the sea.
We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?
Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration
Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.
Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.
Cat, " said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.
