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Island Quotes

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

David A. Siegel

Tree Island Palm Yacht Even Bought

Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.

Sleep Now Want Island Run Naughty

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

School High School Island Boy High

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

Car Beach Texas Down Go Island

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

Bertrand Piccard

Beautiful Desert Island Old Film

I have been personally victimized by organized disruption of a public lecture on a university campus - at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State University, and Rhode Island's Providence College, to name only a few.

College Name Hill Island Disruption

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

Best Said Island Soil Being Dry

No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.

Romesh Wadhwani

Drive Island Development Economic

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Island True Land Never Switzerland

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

Molly Crabapple

Long Island Up Long Island Far Then

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

Week Said Island Pass Would Insane

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

Louis Leterrier

Alone Small America You Island Guy

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Jamaica Kincaid

Sea Ocean Creative Me Place Island

I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple.

Fish Hawaii Island First Ginger Soy

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Knowledge Great Ocean Brainy Island

I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.

Music Me Long Born Island Shaped

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

Age Man Book Island Gentle Ability

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Sea Problems Island Africa Poor

'Strong Island' is not your typical true-crime film. It's not actually about the uncovering of evidence or following leads that hadn't been seen before or any of that stuff.

Strong Island Evidence Seen Film

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

Chellie Pingree

Live Community Day Three Island

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph W. Sockman

Knowledge Wonder Island Larger

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

Golf Island Double Something Almost

My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There, we had lunch at the famed Trattoria al Gatto Nero da Ruggero - one of the most incredible meals of our lives.

Anniversary Day Lunch Husband Island

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Wife Vacation Island Georgia Up Off

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