Polynesian Quotes

#1. In another place was a vast array of idols - Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.

H.G.Wells

#2. They passed a bed of opium poppies, dispetaled now; the round, ripe seedheads were brown and dry - like Polynesian trophies, Denis thought; severed heads stuck on poles.

Aldous Huxley

#3. All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Troy Polamalu

#4. My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

T.I.

#5. Do you ... still believe?'
'Our very presence here, a Polynesian goddess sitting next to a Zulu thunder god, listening to the song of a Greek siren, should be proof enough that religions can and do coexist.' He looked back at the cross over the entryway. 'And I still do not know.

Karsten Knight

#6. As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special

Jason Momoa

#7. Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand ...

Anne Sexton

#8. Tom raised his eyebrows. "Master Benedict keeps cannon fuse?" "We use it to light things from far away," I said. "You know," Tom said, "things you have to light from far away probably shouldn't be lit at all.

Kevin Sands

#9. The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.

Brian O'Driscoll

#10. Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.

Nikki Reed

#11. Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

Ping Fu

#12. Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.

Ricky Nelson

#13. Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.

Meg Cabot

#14. We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves.

Rob Bell

#15. Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Gene Tierney

#16. If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Dean Norris

#17. The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse.

Dave Barry

#18. TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.

Ryu Murakami

#19. The mai tai got its name when two Polynesian alcoholics got in a fight over some neckwear.

George Carlin

#20. I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

Christopher Castellani

#21. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

Jethro Tull

#22. An artist is like a handicap
he needs his art to carry himself.

Yarro Rai

#23. The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System - the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

Baha'u'llah

#24. Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

Don McCullin

#25. My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#26. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them

Joe Abercrombie

#27. I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

Al Gore

#28. I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

Barack Obama

#29. We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

#30. To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

John Cheever