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This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death. — Jennifer Arnett

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

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

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. — Jack Reed

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

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

Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination. — Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Silence as they crept in towards the island. Hal navigated by the compass, — Wilbur Smith

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island. — Lucy Foley

...., who have miraculously materialised, at that very moment. Just like a thick bank of clouds, in the middle of summer, during one's lunch hour. — Gary Edward Gedall

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

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

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding

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

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

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

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

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 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

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. — Henry Morton Stanley

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

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island. — Garry Hynes

the Supreme Alpha Male it's my duty to protect them, so I created this island — Curvy Love Publishing

Then some one said, "We will return no more";
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam. — Alfred Tennyson

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

The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome. A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion, and good teeth are found all over the island. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. — Elizabeth George

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. — William Golding

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. — Cassandra Clare

'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

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. — Christopher Atkins

She was back on the island. On Yamatai. A hellish storm raged all around her. — Dan Abnett

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

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

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

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. — Jhumpa Lahiri

They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language. — Tracy Guzeman

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower

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

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

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on the Island of Misfit Toys? — Allison Pang

Throughout his twenty-eight years on the island, goats are as wild as it gets. — Richard T. Nash

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here. — Charles Barkley

More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals. — Elizabeth Wein

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

I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys. — Camren Bicondova

Look," I said. "Me and the island are . . . kind of partners." "Oh, right," Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, "Harry's a geosexual. — Jim Butcher

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

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

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

Welcome to the island of misfit toys — Stephen Chbosky

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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