Quotes About The Thousand Islands

#1. I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

John Grisham

#2. I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#3. If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg

#4. How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley

#5. SCREW PERFECTION. Perfect is the archenemy of Better. Perfect is boring. Perfect is unattainable.

Fay Wolf

#6. What moves me is watching young men bond together and tap into the magic that arises when they focus with their whole heart and soul on something greater than themselves. Once you've experienced that, it's something you never forget.

Phil Jackson

#7. If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

Steve Mahoney

#8. Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

Adoniram Judson

#9. I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

Terry Pratchett

#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. Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn't 'whining,' it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Alan Gibson

#13. The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

David Attenborough

#14. Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

#15. We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.

Mike Bond

#16. The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Chris Prentiss

#17. Jesus, Karen, this bottle of Thousand Islands remembers where it was during the Kennedy assassination.

Douglas Coupland