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Island Quotes

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Power Support Building Island Will

If I were on 'Survivor,' I might be the first off the island.

Island Survivor First Be The First

Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.

Me Island Knowing First Republic

I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

Win Island Survivor Prize Off Idea

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder

Love Island Poet Would Poet Laureate

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Man Blame World You Want Island

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

Nicolas Berggruen

Time Me World Busy Far Away Island

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

New York Stand Duck Long New Island

I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.

Beach Small Summer Kind Island Up

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

Kenneth Langone

Job Construction Long Island Boy

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

Water Find Island Way Central Park

I'm an island girl, so I love super bronzy skin!

Love Girl Skin Island Super I Love

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

Game Search Island Search Engine

Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick.

People Crown Brooklyn Born Island

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.

Time Back Treasure Island First Time

Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.

Business Create Island Manufacturing

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

Me Desert Think Want Island Trapped

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

Eric Schneiderman

Guilt Find New Island Trapped Poor

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Time Fish Genius Organizing Island

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

Love Music Island Boy Reggae I Love

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Death Man Artist Lose Island Us

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Me Growing Up Friends Growing Island

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

Ambrose Burnside

Future Courage Fire Victory Island

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Amazing Now Three Island More Big

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