Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

John W. Gardner

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Theo Rossi

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

Meg Cabot

I've never even been to Long Island

Meg Cabot

I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.

Matthew McConaughey

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Johnny Depp

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Nicholas Lea

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Peter Arnett

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]

Mason Cooley

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Michael Johnson

A bird, music and food -desert island items

Michael D. Higgins

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Jerry Seinfeld

We’re all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn’t matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Englishmen must have an island.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

Esperanza Spalding

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Fanny Kemble

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Cassandra Clare

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Jeanette Winterson

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

Jerry Lawler

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels

George Bernard Shaw

She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

... because there's a lot of movement of people between the islands in the region, there is a risk of it spreading.

Jack London

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

Jack Adams

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Jack Adams

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

J. C. Chandor

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

Staten Island (the Yankees' New York-Penn League affiliate) knew we were going to do this. They're planning to retaliate.

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Arsene Wenger

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.