Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Shelton

If you did a poll of Rhode Island people, ... they don't want people to be cold, they don't want people to be shut off.

Mark Burnett

The island was a midway staging post for piracy,

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.

Julian Baggini

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Muhammad Iqbal

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

Kathy Griffin

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

Paul Wesley

Id like to live in the Greek islands

Peter Hain

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

Phyllis Schlafly

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

Shia LaBeouf

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Natalie MacMaster

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

Josh Lucas

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9

Joshua Foer

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

John Keble

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

Lincoln Chafee

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lenny Bruce

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

Lauren Conrad

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

Joseph Goebbels

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Julian Huxley

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.

Judy Garland

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

Paul Theroux

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

Paul McCartney

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

Elizabeth George

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

James M. Barrie

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

John Hodgman

Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.

Garry Hynes

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

Gavin DeGraw

I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.