Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

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

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

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

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

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

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

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

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