Islands Quotes
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.
In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
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.
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
