Island Quotes
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I’ll go and buy an island and live underwater in a re-breather with Kleenex boxes on my feet.
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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Honestly, some of the things that happen will absolutely shock people. It's very unlike what people think of Gilligan's Island...viewers will absolutely be entertained.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
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I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring?
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Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world...
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
