Island Flirtations Quotes

#1. The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying.

Jason Fried

#2. On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Philip Guston

#4. Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Jon Meacham

#5. A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

#6. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

Gwenn Wright

#7. What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment from God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#8. Good. Because right now I don't have you pegged as a yuppie. You're something else. I'm not sure what you are, but I'm going to find out." "Cool.

Ned Vizzini

#9. There was no sound but the murmur of nasty little stinging insects, the occasional crack of a falling branch, and the whispering of the trees discussing religion and the trouble with squirrels. Rincewind

Terry Pratchett

#10. Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

Elif Shafak

#12. Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
whispers to the moon
in silent moonlit clarity

Bear Step

#13. You have been missing from me for far too long.

Belle Hale

#14. I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life ...

Russell Johnson

#15. I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

Otto Dix