The Island Quotes
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The Island Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
...., 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 toyour 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
