Islands Quotes
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I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
William Bell -
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.
William Kittredge
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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 -
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.
Richard Sherman -
Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
Dolly Parton -
Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
Albert Camus -
My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.
Sharon Bolton -
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell
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When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
Hilary Mantel -
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.
Renzo Piano -
Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.
Sharon Bolton -
The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know.
Elisha -
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
Shinzo Abe -
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
Ray Bradbury