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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. — Laurie Anderson

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. — Alcoholics Anonymous

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath. — James Rozoff

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal. — Frederick Lenz

You were a stone wall, a fort in high,
unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. — Deb Caletti

Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God. — Albert Vigoleis Thelen

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. — Joseph Monninger

A gem of an island glimmered in the bright, blue sea. Here the winged and webbed, hoofed and horned, mighty and meek, all lived in peace. — Alexis York Lumbard

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott

At the skin, my blood calls out to
your heart, my whole sky craves
an island of tenderness.
My rivers tilt towards you. — Marina Tsvetaeva

But he knows that no man is an island. — Paulo Coelho

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. — Machado De Assis

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island. — Sarah Hall

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. — H.P. Lovecraft

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction. — Alastair Bruce

No man's an island. Not even the ones that think they are. Especially not them. — Mark Lawrence

There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression. — Rick Riordan

We're just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

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

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six. — Simon Munnery

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler

No, thanks. I'm busy being an island of sanity in a sea of utter madness. — Maggie Stiefvater

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. — Chet Raymo

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands. — Paul Mazursky

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble. — Rajneesh

Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe. — Bryce Courtenay

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

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island — Neil Gaiman

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice

Her self was an island. — John Steinbeck

Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock

But every tomorrow has led to today - to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific. — Jennifer Arnett

No man is an island, entire of itself. — John Donne

This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze. — Hugh MacLennan

For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began. — Kathy Reichs

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

B, I swear, if you call her a cougar to her face, I will buy you a car." Carwyn snickered. "A house. Maybe even an island. — Elizabeth Hunter

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking ... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. — Cote De Pablo

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ... — Agatha Christie

Mama! They must take ship. It is an island. One does not simply walk into Murano. — Mary Robinette Kowal

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. — Francesca Annis

Englishmen must have an island. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Love is an island in the setting sun — Paul Simon

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. — Bill O'Reilly

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast — Ronald Reagan

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon. — Jessica Day George

No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another. — Romesh Wadhwani

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place. — John Lydon

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life. — Lauren Conrad

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. — Steven Tyler

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. — William Wrigley Jr.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen. — Michael Crichton

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. — Lauren DeStefano

In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely inhospitable cosmic archipelago. — Brian Greene

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island. — Shane Smith

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
in the midst of so much turbulence. — Paul McCartney

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

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far. — Bob Hope

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. — Francis Daniels Moore

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. — Michael Dirda

She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for Escape from a deserted island. — Kimberly Kinrade

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too). — Elizabeth Gilbert

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. — Jamie Wyeth

Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean — Wasif Ali Wasif

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer. — Tess Gerritsen

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing. — Jon M. Chu

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. — Oscar De La Renta

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. — J.M. Barrie

No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World. — Gabrielle Zevin

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. — Roddy Doyle

If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it. — Kendare Blake

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island — C.B. Murphy

we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood. — Rick Yancey

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction. — Elizabeth Cooke

Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one. — Tim Hall

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

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. — Alan Lightman

No one person is an island. — Yehuda Berg

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters. — Carlton Cuse

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. — Paul Simon

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome. — May Sarton

The pope heard of the Knights' lax morals and sent an inquisitor to the island in 1574; he set up shop in a mansion in the shopping district. — Tom Reiss

But of course, no family is an island unto itself. It is always part of a larger culture: a community. — Richard C. Morais

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day. — Chellie Pingree

You mean I'm the first guy your parents have rescued from an enchanted island via use of a magic mirror? I feel special. — Rachel Hawkins

We were an island. Me and Holly. Completely alone in this strange moment. — Julie Cross

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

... after all, what is a planet but an island in space? — John Wyndham

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas. — Robin Williams

It is only an island of light surrounded by a vastly greater area of greyness and that fades ultimately into the black of ignorance. — George R R Martin

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas. — Achim Steiner

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. — Samuel Schmid

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