Quotes About Desert Islands

#1. All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Thomas Sowell

#2. Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

#3. Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Max Beerbohm

#4. Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#5. poleaxed with exuberance. Keeping to dirt roads,

C.J. Box

#6. What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

Simon Cowell

#7. There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#8. She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other.

Kresley Cole

#9. I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!

Graham Russell

#10. A bird, music and food -desert island items

Michael Johnson

#11. Continue demonstrating your immaturity," the Eldest said. "Surely, I will be persuaded then.

Will Wight

#12. I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

Billy Connolly

#13. I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Garth Brooks

#14. Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Mason Cooley

#15. For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#16. Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape ... Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

Stephen Hawking

#17. Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

John Keble

#18. I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

Glenn Gould

#19. [Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Oscar Levant

#20. Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

Etty Hillesum

#21. There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Siri Hustvedt

#22. I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store ... You deserve better.

Michael Moore

#23. If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.

Raffaella Barker

#25. You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

Lenny Bruce

#26. Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#27. Surely it can't be," he said, his hand stealing over her thigh, "that this intrepid explorer of underwater caverns hasn't explored her own little cove?

Tessa Dare

#28. We do crazy shit because we're broken.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#29. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.

John Gardner

#30. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire

#31. If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.

George C. Scott