The Islands Quotes
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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
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
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Through the sunset of hope,Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
New land formed by lava flows belongings to the state, not to abutting property owners. So ruled the Hawai'i Supreme Court in 1977.
— Larue W. Piercy
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
— Richard Stallman
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
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
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
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
— Lewis Black
The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
several hundred English lived on Tortuga, the westernmost part of the sprawling British Leeward Islands
— Colin Woodard
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don't need to be wasted on naming things.
— Doug Cooper
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
— Eric Weiner
My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.
— Sharon Bolton
For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
— David Quammen
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
Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
— Steven Tyler
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
— Robert Fortune
Id like to live in the Greek islands
— Paul Wesley
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
— Judy Garland
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
— Robert Browning
The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.
— Julia Golding
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
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
— Peter Abrahams
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
— Joseph Goebbels
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
— L. David Mech
Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
— Peter R. Grant
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
— William Irwin Thompson
Britain, the best of islands, is situated in the Western Ocean, between France and Ireland.
— Geoffrey Of Monmouth
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Francis Burton
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
— Gautama Buddha
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
— Luke Rhinehart
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
— Ru Freeman
As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
— Freeman Dyson
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
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
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
— Frederick Lenz
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
Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People don't live like islands.
— Alexandra Bracken
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
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 ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
— Nicholas Lea
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
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence. — Paul McCartney
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
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
I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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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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 brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.
— Francis Daniels Moore
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
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
— Joey Badass
