Island By Gordon Korman Quotes

#1. You want to know what's even more troublesome?" I scooted up. "Our real names rhyme."
He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that.

Diana Peterfreund

#2. I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

Carrie Coon

#3. The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#4. Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Don't tell them he's upstairs , I commanded my brain. Tell them he moved to Pacoima to start a commune for vegetarian vampires. Tell them he's looking into getting a sex-change operation and renaming himself Lulu Pleshette.

Molly Harper

#6. A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Edmund Burke

#7. I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.

Genghis Khan

#8. It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls don't live in their bodies anymore because they've leached so much of themselves into their work.

Katja Millay

#9. My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Tori Amos

#10. As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

Alice Greczyn

#11. I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

Russell Hoban

#12. I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'

Dennis Haysbert

#13. Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

Ellie Kemper

#14. There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.

Steve Mariucci

#15. Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

Fulton J. Sheen