Islands Quotes - Page 10

• I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

  Armie Hammer

  Home, School, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash

  Marg Helgenberger

  Numbers, Directors, Roles

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• I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

  Jeremy Northam

  Nice, Jamaica, Desire

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• Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

  Brigitte Bardot

  People, Mars, Firsts

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• Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island.

  Heather McDonald

  Ice, Long, Tea

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• I grew up on a tiny little island.

  Samantha Barks

  Littles, Tiny, Grew

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• I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.

  Rachel Uchitel

  Believe, Kids, Fighting

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• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Stars, Kids, College

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Media, Marketing

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• The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  Science, Sea, Brain

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• Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Doe, Next, Idiot

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• But he knows that no man is an island.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Men

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• They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Alaska, Russia, Doors

  "ABC News" with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2008.

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• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  Andrew Motion

  Firsts, Gone, Treasure

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

  Vasily Grossman

  Men, Compassion, Ideas

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.267, Random House

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• I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

  Viola Davis

  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

  Adam Clarke

  Kings, Sea, Hands

  Adam Clarke (2013). “Commentary on the New Testament”, p.38, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Choices, Done, Might

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• And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

  Paul Simon

  Pain, Rocks, Cry

  Song: I Am a Rock, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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• We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  War, Said, Planes

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.83, Random House

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• She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

  May Sarton

  Running, Fun, Light

  May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

  Deb Caletti

  Wall, Tree, Stones

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Sea, Shouting

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.44, e-artnow

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• ...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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