Islands Quotes - Page 7

• Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

  Agatha Christie

  Ends

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• You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

  Jason Mraz

  Ocean, Reality, Diarrhea

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• No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Men, Long, Peninsulas

  "Epigram Writer" by Mike O'Sullivan, VOA Learning English, learningenglish.voanews.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

  Dolly Parton

  Misinterpretation, Streams

  Song: Islands in The Stream

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• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Littles, Lessons, Prosperity

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• ...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

  John Wyndham

  Space, Planets

  John Wyndham (1957). “The Midwich cuckoos”

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• Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

  Steven Wright

  Book, Desert, Boat

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• My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

  Tim Vine

  Party, Italian, Dresses

  "Tim Vine: the man behind the masterful one-liner" by William Langley, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 23, 2014.

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• No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Peninsulas

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• I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

  Ayrton Senna

  Sea, Misery, Prosperity

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• 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.

  Nellie Bly

  Insane, Asylums, Rats

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.

  Will Cuppy

  Thinking, People, Survival

  "Living from Can to Mouth". Comic interview with Jo Ranson for Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, No. 5, November 24, 1929.

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• ...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Real, Mad

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.

  Chris Hadfield

  Beautiful, Ocean, Bahamas

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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• If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

  George C. Scott

  Would Be, Needs, Desert

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• Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

  Alain Gerbault

  Men, Mountain, Needs

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• Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Jobs, Ocean, Men

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• A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

  Johnny Carson

  Fun, Turkeys, Two

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• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agreement, Talking, Two

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Needs, Citizens

  Source: www.rt.com

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• You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

  Robert Bly

  Long, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.utne.com

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• In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

  Mandy Moore

  Beach, Sunset, Kind

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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