Islands Quotes

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

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.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

No man is an island.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

No man is an island unto himself.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.