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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

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

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

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

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

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

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand

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

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness. — Paul Davies

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

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

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

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

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

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. — Jason Statham

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. — Ann Cleeves

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

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. — Napoleon Hill

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

Voyaging great distances
through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains
is all about finding ourselves. — Tim Lebbon

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

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys. — Stella Benson

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

I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf. — Tom Doak

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are ... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law. — Naoto Kan

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

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising. — F.C. Malby

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

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history. — Shinzo Abe

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

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

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson

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

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

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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