I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood.
Toby Stephens
ChildhoodSpaceAmericanLostIsland
The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.
Wendy Robie
PeopleMeIslandBearButlerThem
Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.
Mike Barnicle
CityDriveComfortNewIslandCharm
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Paul Simon
FaithSunIslandEveryoneLine
We must recognize that Small Island Developing States are particularly vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and external shocks.
Miroslav Lajcak
ChangeSmallClimate ChangeIsland
My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.
Lee Hyeon-seo
PlaceParadiseIslandTropical
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
Jason Scott Lee
ConflictIslandRoyalClassEaster
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
FatherNightHouseNowIslandJail
I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
Jonathan Evison
SchoolChanceHigh SchoolIslandWay
For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
Carmen Electra
WorkFruitPlaceSummerGoIsland
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
Dennis Brown
AloneManIslandStands
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg
PersonIsland
There are certain fundamental things that scream, 'I just moved to New York.' Things like eating cheesecake at Junior's or heading out to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone.
Chris Gethard
RideNew YorkEatingNewIslandOut
There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
Sam Altman
LoveBeachSailI CanGoIsland
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Christopher Columbus
DesireSaidIslandSameWithoutMay
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
Natalie MacMaster
MusicMeLivingIslandOutDecide
I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.
Bob Sheppard
LongBornIslandYearsWhereGot
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
Jack Reed
I AmGoalIslandUnitedServeOnly
'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
TravelTraveledIslandQuestionNext
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
Harold Feinstein
MeWorldLovedIslandNeverHot
I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.
Antony Gormley
RiverLookGoNewWoodIsland
The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
Garry Hynes
IslandNeverBeenOddActually
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
FearFateFriendsIslandDestruction
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas
JobManLonelyIslandJudgingMay
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