Islands Quotes - Page 36

• The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Cities, Rivers, Bars

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• In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

  Pico Iyer

  Easter, Past, Korea

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• I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

  Antony Gormley

  Horse, Adventure, Rivers

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• When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

  Leos Carax

  Cinema, Wonderful, Ready

  "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Rhode Island, Cake

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

  Garry Hynes

  Odd Things, Odd, Cripples

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• Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

  Simon Munnery

  Men, Six

  "Attention Scum!", Episode 1, 2001.

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• But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Two, Differences, People

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• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Class, Culture, Stories

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• I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

  Terry Pratchett

  Presence Of Mind, Bottles, Three Mile Island

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• How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

  Calvin Trillin

  Travel, Home, Trying

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• I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there. ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands.

  Tim Duncan

  Tired, Thinking, Nba Championships

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• If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Writing, Video, Pieces

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• Before we understand how not to hurt, we must contribute to the peacefulness of it all, in that if we participate in any way, in anything that hurts, anything that involves killing and hurting, then we're hurting ourselves because we're not islands, we're all connected regardless of tradition, and because of that we're all connected.

  Maya Tiwari

  Hurt, Way, Tradition

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• We are so many
  and many within themselves
  travel to far islands but no one
  asks for their story.

  Denise Levertov

  Travel, Stories, Asks

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• I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Florida, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.391

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• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Blood, Years

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• Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Jobs, Years, Philippines

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• You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

  Donny Osmond

  Thinking, Hype, Identity

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• Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Running, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.20, Routledge

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Garden, May, Littles

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Aunt, Secret

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.86, A&C Black

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• Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.

  T.A. Barron

  Talking, Long, Tree

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Seven Songs”, p.187, Penguin

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