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To be alive is to move around, to search for better places, to scavenge the planet looking for more hospitable islands. — Fatema Mernissi

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ... — Clive Barker

Sora, don't ever change. — Tetsuya Nomura

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier. — W. H. Auden

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

Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands — Margaret Craven

If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others' tragedies. — Neil Gaiman

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands. — George Duke

When Torgon Greyiron returned at last to the Iron Islands, he declared the — George R R Martin

We shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. — Sylvia Plath

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

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James

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

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists. — Cary McNeal

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

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it — Ban Ki-moon

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. — Nellie Bly

The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay. — Stacy Aumonier

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Grown on a grand scale, sugar spreads its blight on a grand scale and today unemployment and poverty are these islands' permanent guests. — Eduardo Galeano

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies. — Judd Apatow

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

People don't live like islands. — Alexandra Bracken

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

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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information. — Freeman Dyson

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything. — Frederick Lenz

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me. — Simon Cowell

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive. — David Whitehouse

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island. — Peter Jackson

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world. — Halford Mackinder

When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands. — Jose Andres

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island. — Jesse Jackson

Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. — Dan Simmons

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz

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

The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India. — Martha Hunt

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change. — Nancy Sleeth

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. — Tom Felton

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas. — David Copperfield

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." — Mark Falcoff

[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. — Oscar Levant

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

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? — Eva Mendes

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. — Salman Rushdie

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.' — Denis Waitley

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

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki — Tamora Pierce

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I — Neil Gaiman

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

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean. — Ann Wright

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

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

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap! — Jordan Sonnenblick

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

Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

But we once had some, we white men, in one of the islands. Not the Oui-ouis" (native name for the French), "real white men. — Andrew Lang

Find your eternity in each moment — Henry David Thoreau

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

On rocky islands gulls woke. — Esther Forbes

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. — Nicole Polizzi

I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun! — Kevin Dillon

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

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

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

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

With the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. France. — Anthony Doerr

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

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

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey

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

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing. — Jeff Greene

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures. — Gretel Ehrlich

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. — Aneurin Bevan

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. — Nicholas Lea

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

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

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons. — Mike Mignola

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill

Coming to Hawai'i is like going from black and white to color. — John Richard Stephens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's just that we'd like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they're more like neighboring islands. — Gayle Forman