Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

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

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

Richelle Mead

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Trent Reznor

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

Wendelin Van Draanen

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

Jodi Picoult

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Lola Kirke

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

Suzy Bogguss

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

Bryan Cranston

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play [ "All the Way" ]. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

George Hamilton

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

Walter Benjamin

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

John Lennon

Get back to where you once belonged,

Ally Carter

I'll be here when you get back.