Islands Quotes

• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Gone

• You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Reality
  • Ocean
  • Diarrhea

• If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Needs
  • Desert
  • Shelter

• The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Remains
  • Terrorist
  • Target

• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Song

• That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Knowing
  • Landscape
  • Myth

• We handed over nothing, those territories [Tarabarov Island to China] were disputed and we have been negotiating this issue with the People's Republic of China, let me stress that, for 40 years, and finally managed to come to an agreement. One part of the territory was assigned to Russia, while another part - to the People's Republic of China.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • China
  • Agreement

• 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.

  

  William James
  • Tree
  • Darkness
  • Roots

• I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • College
  • Half
  • Gpa

• I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents of each chapter came first or the artist came first in making the decision was different in each case.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Ideas

• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agreement
  • Four
  • Abe

• Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

  

  Chet Raymo
  • Sea
  • Mystery
  • Islands

• Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Decision
  • Ends
  • Three

• Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

  

  N. C. Wyeth
  • Quality
  • Treasure
  • Islands

• For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

  

  William Golding
  • Views
  • Diverse
  • Islands

• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  

  Cecil Beaton
  • Sky
  • Landscape
  • Peninsulas

• For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

  

  Critias
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Sea

• All of the Cyclades are numinous islands, but Delos lies like a poem in the sea. She washed and cradled the archpoet Apollo and first took him for god.

  

  Callimachus
  • God
  • Poem
  • Apollo

• That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Made
  • Economy

• This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Peaceful
  • Connected
  • Constant

• My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

  

  Sharon Bolton
  • Sacrifice
  • First
  • Novel

• It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

  

  Alan Brennert
  • People
  • History
  • Islands

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