Top 100 Quotes About An Island
#1. England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Salman Rushdie
#2. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.
Stephen Clarke
#3. The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins
#4. And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.
Paul Simon
#5. Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...
Mykyta Isagulov
#6. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#7. An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. It is this kind of resourcefulness, I think, that explains how this hardy band of Vikings managed to survive more than one thousand years on an island that is about as hospitable to human habitation as the planet Pluto - if Pluto were a planet, that is, which it's not.
Eric Weiner
#10. In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
Achim Steiner
#11. If a hundred people were shipwrecked on an island, what would it even mean to say that everyone there has a "right" to food, or that everyone has a "right" to health care, or the "right" to a job, or the "right" to a "living wage"?
Larken Rose
#12. I could buy an island. I could buy a private jet - but I have NetJets.
David Tepper
#13. In the bustling of the cities, forever surrounded by people and their chatter, we stand alone; an island of humanity. Build your raft, that you may drift into the heart and make real contact.
Martin Cosgrove
#14. A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
Bertrand Piccard
#15. ... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.
Frances Trollope
#17. I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
Arsene Wenger
#18. Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
Ben Stein
#19. No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Timothy Noah
#21. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
Sharon Bolton
#22. Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.
Raquel Cepeda
#23. Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
#24. NEVERLAND:The imaginary island home of Peter Pan and the lost boys. A place where you never grow up. Michael Jackson's former retreat. An accurate description of the 21st century.
Daniel Prokop
#25. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
Eoin Colfer
#26. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
Cecily McMillan
#27. Girls were not named for flowers, as flowers died so quickly. Girls were named for deathless things - forms of light, forms of cloud, shapes of stars, that which appears and disappears like an island on the horizon.
Louise Erdrich
#28. The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.
Rick Yancey
#29. I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Paul Simon
#30. 'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
Ross Lynch
#31. A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#32. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.
Kristina Meister
#33. If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
Steven Tyler
#34. Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
Simon Mawer
#35. No man's an island. Not even the ones that think they are. Especially not them.
Mark Lawrence
#36. An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world's lightness folds.
Soroosh Shahrivar
#37. Since I decided to buy an island and move there with my favorite volleyball," Deacon shot back, watched his friend's lips twitch, ignored it, and moved into the room, shrugging off his coat and throwing it on the bed.
Kristen Ashley
#38. In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
J. Donald Walters
#39. It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
Lauren DeStefano
#40. No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.
Paulo Coelho
#41. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
Jacque Fresco
#42. I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#43. For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.
Kathy Reichs
#44. Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone
Arthur C. Clarke
#45. I'm off to an island nation where formal wear consists of a leaf tired around a penis.
J. Maarten Troost
#46. Love was not an easy thing to find on this island. But it sure was an easy thing to lose
Aishabella Sheikh
#47. Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
Libba Bray
#48. I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
Maggie Q
#49. [M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.
Elizabeth Cooke
#50. A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.
Michael Leunig
#51. Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear.
Chuck Kruger
#52. You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
Donny Osmond
#53. She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for Escape from a deserted island.
Kimberly Kinrade
#54. I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.
Sadako Ogata
#55. To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.
Primo Levi
#56. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.
Ng Yi-Sheng
#57. Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.
Simon Munnery
#58. The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
Maria Montessori
#59. Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret Thatcher
#60. In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
Milan Kundera
#61. He thought: Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ... . He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI
Agatha Christie
#62. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
Jim George
#63. I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
Elizabeth Olsen
#64. Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.
Noel Fielding
#65. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
H.G.Wells
#66. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
#67. If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.
Kendare Blake
#68. Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
Will.i.am
#69. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#70. I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.
Robert Plant
#72. Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
Tom Kettle
#73. No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?
Nickolas Butler
#74. When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle
#75. I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me
Laurie Matthew
#76. AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
Ambrose Bierce
#77. She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May Sarton
#78. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island
Neil Gaiman
#79. Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
Edward P. Jones
#80. For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of No.
John Valentine
#81. The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from France, to an island given into his possession, with his guards and several million, which are paid to him for some reason.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.
Austin Stowell
#83. When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.
Roxane Gay
#84. A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
Daniel Handler
#85. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
#86. In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett
#87. By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
#88. By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Riccardo Muti
#90. We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
#91. There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.
Michael Crichton
#92. I've never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I
Pierce Brown
#93. As the mother of the ten-month-old hospitalized in San Diego said, if people want to make that choice, they should go live on an island with its own schools and doctors: "their own little infectious disease island.
Deborah Blum
#94. Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce
#96. Nat was so easy about these things. Alex guessed that's what happened when you slept with another girl every week on an overcrowded island with too small a surface. She had no choice but to practice casualness.
Harper Bliss
#97. No man is an island."
"So I'm a peninsula. Only semi-detached.
Rodney Ross
#98. Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.
A.B. Shepherd
#99. I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.
Richard Sherman
#100. No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.
Suzy Duffy
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