Top 100 Quotes About An Island
#1. L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
Nicolas Berggruen
#2. I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.
Tess Gerritsen
#3. Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.
Marlena De Blasi
#4. A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
Lillian Hellman
#5. No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#6. I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
David A. Siegel
#7. Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.
Shane Smith
#8. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
#9. Tessa reached for the words ... You know, in that essay of Donne's, what he says ... about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others.
Cassandra Clare
#10. It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died.
Ransom Riggs
#11. If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal
Voltaire
#12. If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?
Daniel J. Boorstin
#13. Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world
Jimmy Carter
#14. I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
Richard Flanagan
#15. If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
John Bates Clark
#16. I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.
Kesha
#17. A gem of an island glimmered in the bright, blue sea. Here the winged and webbed, hoofed and horned, mighty and meek, all lived in peace.
Alexis York Lumbard
#18. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
Machado De Assis
#19. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.
E.L. James
#20. Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.
Margaret Atwood
#21. Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.
Martiros Saryan
#22. There's an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn't mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat.
Jules Verne
#23. ... after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
John Wyndham
#24. Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
Carl Jung
#25. I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.
Myles Munroe
#26. we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.
Rick Yancey
#27. I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Francesca Annis
#28. Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake ... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
Maurice Strong
#29. Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
Khalil Gibran
#30. Sailing to an island unknown
Failing to find your way home
you walk under a sea
leagues beneath us
Maggie Stiefvater
#31. Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze.
Hugh MacLennan
#33. Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
Wright Morris
#34. As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.
My Idea grows.
A.S. King
#35. So I couldn't just pack my blue IKEA sack and go - I had to do the right thing. I had to preserve what was left of the goodness in my soul. But for the record, this was exactly why I never wanted to have friends. So much for being an island. Thanks
Camille Perri
#36. Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
in the midst of so much turbulence.
Paul McCartney
#37. As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.
Tahir Shah
#38. To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I'd ever had to locate in my entire seeking career: a virgin on an island full of college students.
Lisa Shearin
#39. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#40. Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza
#41. An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
William Wrigley Jr.
#42. The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#43. Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#44. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.
William H. Whyte
#45. Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
Chet Raymo
#46. An island of surety in a changing world.
Bill Veeck
#47. I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.
Planningtorock
#48. I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#50. Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
Alan Lightman
#51. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein
#52. Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle
#53. No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
Romesh Wadhwani
#54. It seems to me," said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, "that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.
Zadie Smith
#55. California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
Paul Mazursky
#56. Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.
Lauren Conrad
#57. Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
Thomas Paine
#58. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
Johnny Depp
#59. The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#60. Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.
Bill Veeck
#61. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#62. It's an island, boss. They'll always find us. Teddy met Chuck's eyes and nodded. For the first time since they'd met, he could see fear in Chuck's eyes, his jaw trying to tighten against it.
Dennis Lehane
#63. Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
John Lydon
#64. Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.
Carl Rogers
#65. At the skin, my blood calls out to
your heart, my whole sky craves
an island of tenderness.
My rivers tilt towards you.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#66. All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#68. England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
Katherine Mansfield
#69. A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
Jose Andres
#70. Mama! They must take ship. It is an island. One does not simply walk into Murano.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#71. They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
Sarah Palin
#72. No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
Richard Matheson
#73. Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna
#74. There was something magical about an island - the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world - an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.
Agatha Christie
#75. Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ...
Agatha Christie
#76. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
Wyndham Lewis
#77. I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.
Jemima Kirke
#78. Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
Hope Davis
#79. Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. Had he inadvertently made the famed homicide department of the Surete an island? Far from saving careers of promising agents, had he in fact imprisoned them, kept them from the mainland of their peers?
Louise Penny
#81. Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.
Diane Ackerman
#82. Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
Diana Wynne Jones
#83. No man is an island, entire of itself.
John Donne
#84. I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Gabriel Basso
#85. 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
Carlton Cuse
#86. Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other's washing.
Amanda Craig
#87. The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Rajneesh
#88. By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
Marg Helgenberger
#89. Each of us needs something of an island in his life - if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his differences from others.
John Keats
#90. I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
Jamie Wyeth
#91. If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.
Sherwood Schwartz
#92. What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
Bill Buford
#93. It is time I came back to my real life
After this voyage to an island with no name,
Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.
May Sarton
#94. After all, he meant well. Foreigners never seem to understand how little attraction an island of damp fogs, cut off from civilization, and a provincial little court has for us Parisians, who inhabit the most cultivated, powerful monarchy in the world.
Judith Merkle Riley
#95. Everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#96. Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas
#98. You were a stone wall, a fort in high,
unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
Deb Caletti
#99. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -
Virginia Woolf
#100. It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
Jessica Day George
