Island Quotes

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Pico Iyer

MyselfPastMindIslandPlacesWay

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

Cameron Mackintosh

BoatHouseDreamCountryIsland

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Susan Isaacs

FriendsLongIslandWaySheFirst

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

Edie Falco

LifeLongI CanYoungIslandKid

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

Sheldon Whitehouse

SchoolPollutionIslandHardAir

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

IslandGinger

Shooting the music video for 'Party' on Thailand's Ko Samui Island was such a blast.

Tiffany Hwang

MusicPartyIslandShootingThailand

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Tim Bishop

LongUniqueIslandSoundLong Island

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Nicolas Cage

LifeHistoryGoIslandMy OwnOwn

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

Martin Jacques

TogetherSlowPoliticalIslandWill

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

Liane Moriarty

SacrificeI AmResearchBookIsland

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

Kenneth Langone

DayJobConstructionLongIsland

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

Joe Morton

DoingLongIslandUniversityStarted

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

James Theodore Bent

SeaIslandFullEveryGraves

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

Jerry Della Femina

FamilyEducationReadingIslandPoor

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

Henry Morton Stanley

IslandMarchLeftDavidZanzibarDr

As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.

Andrew Zimmern

BeachCookingLongIslandDays

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

Gina Raimondo

PeopleSecurityIslandTalkSocial

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

RiverCityIslandEverythingUrban

I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a right to a fair trial and a right to confront your accuser.

Erik Larson

SchoolYearLongYouIslandRight

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

SelfNowIslandMoreComplexFabric

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

David R. Brower

SpaceLongRailroadIslandOver

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

Mercy Otis Warren

New YorkCityArmyLongNewIsland

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

Catherine Martin

HistoryLongYouGoIslandWill

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