Island Quotes

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
Donny Osmond

Life, True, Person

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Paul Simon

Faith, Sun, Everyone

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
Jimmy Buffett

Crazy, Character, Down

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
Gus Van Sant

Death, Less, Weird

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
will.i.am

Understand, America, Whole

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
Julie Burchill

Love, Famous, Fact

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
Kathy Griffin

Why, Loved, Temptation

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
Shimon Peres

Change, Peace, Nature

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower

Long, Space, Turning

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle

Sea, Stand, Grow

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
Jennifer Garner

Mean, Universe, Felt

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
Cat Cora

Love, Great, Diet

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'
Jonah Hill

Orleans, Pinocchio

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus

Morning, Night, Off

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

Time, Knowledge, Enough

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Gloria Swanson

Army, Key, Lived

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
Oliver Kahn

Leave, Trouble, English

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman

Good, Christmas, Different

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

Life, Long, Young

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.
Jeff Goodell

Food, Here, Means

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.
Jane Campion

Work, Through, After

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson

Someone, America, Lives

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson

Long, Human, Seen

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
Tom Waits

Woman, Sight, Bomb

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.
Matthew Fox

Enjoy, South, Miles

Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
Wilbur Smith

Depression, Book, Through

I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn't even acknowledge me - which is unheard of among sailors - and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba.
Wilbur Smith

Black, Eyes, Big

I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
Wilbur Smith

Again, Once, Year

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
Criss Angel

Long, Poor, Growing

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly

Said, Week, Insane

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