Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Colin Powell

has the interest of the Haitian people at heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Laurent Lamothe

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Katherine Dunham

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

Ben Fountain

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

Mark Kurlansky

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

William Strampel

The labor levels, Medicare climate, malpractice insurance, general weather climate ? there's no simple reason why these people are leaving Michigan.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Prince Charles

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Lois Capps

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.