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Google Earth Finds Woman Trapped On Deserted Island For 7 Years — Anonymous

no ordinary island, and — Thomas William Shore

I'm sorry for being a little tense, Island. I suppose I'm not used to having guests in the front seat. My clients usually ride in the trunk, you know. — Camilla Monk

The island of Bali is littered with prayers. Sacred words, yes, but also sacred objects. — Jeremy Grimshaw

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. — J.M. Barrie

It was always gloomy in Mal's room, just as it was always gray and overcast on the island. — Melissa De La Cruz

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

The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island. — Hilary Mantel

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. — Raymond Sokolov

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel - which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue. — Robert J. Sawyer

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

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. — Robert Breault

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach. — St. Vincent

Someday ... , we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. — Dennis Lehane

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

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. — Don Winslow

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. — Alex Campbell

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. — Charlie Day

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

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. — Sherwood Schwartz

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Our island. Our love. Our marriage. — Nina Lane

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. — Wyclef Jean

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. — Lewis Thomas

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

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture. — Joey Badass

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

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan. — Mickey Rivers

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

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

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different. — Juliet Marillier

In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods. — Lewis Spence

Love is the only boat we can ride in to reach the island of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

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

We are the Island of Misfit Toys, all broken or smashed in some way. — Corrine Jackson

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island. — Molly Crabapple

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

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance. — Stephen King

Every island to a child is a treasure island. — P.D. James

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

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included. — Jerry Della Femina

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda ... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. — Yoweri Museveni

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

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

I don't think you're any crazier than anyone else here on the island — Dominique Eastwick

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz

It's like, I'm scared and there're a lot of ugly things, but I'd rather be shipwrecked on this lovely island than safe in a sad, gray cell. — Corey Ann Haydu

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

If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep. — Lonely Island

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

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY — Ellery Adams

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

The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds. — Peter Matthiessen

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton

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

I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program. — Thomas Middleditch

(More radioactive material fell on Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a result of Chernobyl than from Three Mile Island.) — William Tucker

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island. — Bruce Springsteen

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

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America. — Beto O'Rourke

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog. — Harold Feinstein

From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather. — Natalie Dormer

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. — E. Lockhart

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. — Doug Cooper

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. — Alexa Ray Joel

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

Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality
pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Welcome to the island of misfit toys — Stephen Chbosky

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries. — Liane Moriarty

Isla was named after something, too, you know." "Don't you dare," I say. Josh sits forward. His eyes shine. "Do tell." "Prince. Edward. Island, — Stephanie Perkins

Pervasive part of the island culture — Pat Conroy

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. — L.M. Montgomery

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

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

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

There are a lot of interesting differences between Boston and New York in general, and I think they're sort of heightened in Long Island. — Katie Nolan

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

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

You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island. — Ron Jeremy