Lanai Quotes

#1. We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.

Larry Ellison

#2. It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

Larry Ellison

#3. Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

Larry Ellison

#4. beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead,

Kendal Taylor

#5. One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

Larry Ellison

#6. The next day the weather was blown out, with whitecaps frosting the entire channel across to Lanai and the coconut palms whipping overhead like epileptic dust mops.

Christopher Moore

#7. Here's a basic learning tip. You don't get better at something if you don't do it.

Ginger Hanson

#8. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is ... to live forever.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

#11. You do not know how I have yearned to hear those words.

H.P. Mallory

#12. Jenny looked up quickly. "Do you believe in good and evil?"
"Oh, yes. Very strongly. And I believe that evil sometimes has to be fought - personally. Hand to hand. If you care enough to do it.

L.J.Smith

#13. The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Benjamin Disraeli

#14. If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Lindsay Wagner

#15. One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Derek Blasberg