Islands In The Stream Quotes

#1. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

Salman Rushdie

#2. Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Also there's this thing that happens to me sometimes, and it'll usually be me watching a video of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers singing "Islands in the Stream" and I wonder if I'm crying because I have majorly unaddressed psychological reasons or if that song is really that beautiful.

Molly McAleer

#4. Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

Lynn Coady

#5. Is he crazy? No one has ever told me my doodles are good, not that I flash them around or anything. Gen likes them, but she also thinks vampire romances are literature and sings along to 'Islands in the Stream.' Her tastes are dubious. She's not a reliable source.

Jules Barnard

#6. Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.

Christopher Isherwood

#8. How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.

Andrew Park

#9. England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Katherine Mansfield

#10. Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.

Debi Mazar

#11. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#12. But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#14. What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

#15. broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone.

Patricia Cornwell

#16. Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell.

Kim Harrison

#17. A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.

Xingyun

#18. Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#19. Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Mat McNerney

#20. You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. ...liberalism can't and shouldn't claim complete cultural neutrality. Liberalism is also a fighting creed.

Charles Taylor

#22. The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.