Quotes About Desert Islands

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#7. 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

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

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

Lenny Bruce

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Etty Hillesum

#14. [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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Peter Wessel Zapffe

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

Mason Cooley

#20. 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

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

Will Wight

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

Michael Johnson

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Simon Cowell

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

C.J. Box

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

Kwame Kilpatrick

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

Max Beerbohm

#30. 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

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

Thomas Sowell