Spice Islands Quotes

#1. White villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!

Kenneth Grahame

#2. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.

H.G.Wells

#3. Look, again, I'm competing against professional politicians, senators, top of the line. I know Ben Carson is still in, and he's a terrific guy and a talented guy. And so I'm competing against a lot of very good people.

Donald Trump

#4. The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.

Giles Milton

#5. He seemed to shrug off the sun's rays.

Ilona Andrews

#6. You're beautiful, Replied the fly, to the spider.

Pleasefindthis

#7. The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

Ray Lee Hunt

#8. We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

Milton Glaser

#9. Ideas are incestuous.

Howard Raiffa

#10. Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.

Scott Baio

#11. But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

Mary Balogh