Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.
Jeff Goodell
FoodDriveStrongerPollutionIsland
I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
Dave Foley
IslandNeverWatched
I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.
Amy Schumer
LearningLongIslandEveryoneAlong
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
Billy Bragg
WarListeningSayingLettersIsland
I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.
Sue Hubbell
TexasCountryNewIslandFarming
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
LiveMenChancePovertyIslandAir
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
Tom Waits
WomanIslandAtomic BombSightFirst
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett
WarIslandAtomic BombFirstGround
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.
Rush Limbaugh
PrisonYouWhiteIslandSpecialHe
My family lives on Long Island.
Reed Morano
FamilyLongIslandLong IslandLives
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
Monique Roffey
LovePeopleSpeakIslandPlayful
I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.
Nestor Carbonell
New YorkHeritageBornNewIsland
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.
Lois Lowry
BookGenerationArmyLivingIsland
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid
NameChoiceIslandHavanaEnglish
Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
Jonathan Raban
CuriousIslandSeattleLiberal
I haven't been on very many vacations, but I like Coronado Island, and Disney World was fun.
Hayley McFarland
FunWorldIslandBeenLikeMany
Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.
Dimitri Payet
ChanceGrowIslandGrow UpUp
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.
Daniela Pestova
MorningBeachVacationRestIsland
I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.
Dove Cameron
SchoolYouGoSayIslandHorror
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
TreasureIslandMorePirateBooks
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins
TreesFeelingPlaceIslandPineGuy
Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
Nathaniel Philbrick
SeaWolvesIslandFarmersFirst
I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times a week.
Colin Jost
KnowIslandLikeSegregatedAlso
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
NatureSonSaidThreeIslandSaturn
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