Island Quotes
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Island Quotes & Sayings
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— Thomas William Shore
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
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.
— Rick Riordan
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
— Dennis Miller
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
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[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our island. Our love. Our marriage.
— Nina Lane
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
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
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
hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.
— Bruce Springsteen
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
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
— Timothy Noah
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
Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be strandedas 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
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
