Karana Island Quotes

#1. Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

Spike Jonze

#2. There are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Edith Wharton

#3. At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.

Joseph Gies

#4. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

H. Rider Haggard

#5. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

#6. Each existence depends on something else ... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Helen Sharman

#8. Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where
does it get you?

Loretta LaRoche

#9. It was a sudden, stunned state of quiet drunkenness, complete in itself, their hair mingled like the rays of two bodies in space that had achieved their meeting, she saw that he walked with his eyes closed, as if even sight would now be an intrusion.

Ayn Rand

#10. I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.

David Grossman

#11. I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Mark Twain