Island Quotes
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I really don't think this show is going to work, ... ...I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen.
Bob Denver
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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
Edie Falco
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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.
Yancy Butler
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
Fat Joe
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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.'
Keith Olbermann
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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.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.
M.I.A.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
Gavin MacLeod
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
Samantha Barks
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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.
William Floyd
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
Fanny Kemble
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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.
Rachel Hunter
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
Fat Joe
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
Napoleon Hill
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Salman Rushdie
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I’ll go and buy an island and live underwater in a re-breather with Kleenex boxes on my feet.
Matt Bellamy Muse
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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.
Jozef De Veuster
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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.
Meghan Trainor
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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?
Cameron Crowe
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
Herodotus
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Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world...
Jimmy Carter
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We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard