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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.
Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.
I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
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.
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
I want to make a boatload of money and i want to poof and maybe make it on the senior tour, live on islands, get a bigger Nantucket house.
You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.