Islands Quotes
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Islands Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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 islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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
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
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
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
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
— Chester W. Nimitz
The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.
— Nancy Sleeth
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
— David Copperfield
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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
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
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 strandedas 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
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
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
