Coral Island Quotes

#1. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Eric Hoffer

#2. The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

#3. A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.

Diplo

#4. British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Christopher Isherwood

#5. Cat," said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.

R.M. Ballantyne

#6. Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?

Suzy Menkes

#7. Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.

Anne Michaels

#8. What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

Chiang Kai-shek

#9. My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

#10. To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - 'Farewell

R.M. Ballantyne

#11. Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

Louis Pasteur

#12. When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. We are interested in finding the right customer, at the right price, consistent with our purpose and values, even if that means frequently turning away customers.

Ronald J. Baker

#14. I've seen you up close, like this. I remember your eyes. They're the color of the sea -- just inside a coral reef and your freckles are like the stones of a volcanic island scattered along the sand. Your hair is like the sun setting over the water, shooting out orange rays in all directions

Melissa Turner Lee

#15. There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.

Arthur Miller

#16. I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

William Kent Krueger

#17. My island was not wild, compared to this.
There are such monsters in a palace.

Foz Meadows

#18. The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

Alan Brien

#19. Love is the light that casts no shadow.

Elizabeth Lowell