Quotes About Treasure Island

#1. I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

Mal Peet

#2. I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

Andrew Motion

#3. after we cleared the tunnel at Treasure Island, a panicky

James Patterson

#4. I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

Robin Hobb

#5. I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.

Jamie Wyeth

#6. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

A.A. Milne

#7. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY

Ellery Adams

#8. There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Walt Disney Company

#9. I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

Daniel Radcliffe

#10. Every island to a child is a treasure island.

P.D. James

#11. Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

N. C. Wyeth

#12. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, you are going to get off first or I am going to die. It's really that simple. I'm not going to be overworked.

Jay Green

#13. Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. I'm not proud of the lyrics to 'Shake It Up.'

Ric Ocasek

#15. ...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Tom Felton

#17. I understand if you choose to leave. If it means you get to live, I'd let you go. But you need to know, I won't ever regret a moment we've spent together

Jennifer Silverwood

#18. The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#19. I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

Christina Hendricks

#20. Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

#21. Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Marlon Brando

#22. Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.

Stephen King

#23. Demetri: It's about the girl I fell in love with. The taffy girl at Seaside. The very beautiful girl that I have to let go of, and it kills me to let go of the girl who stole my heart. A heart I won't ever give back, because it belongs to her now, my best friend.

Rachel Van Dyken

#24. I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

Mick Taylor

#25. I'll be as silent as the grave.

Robert Louis Stevenson