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Quotes About Island

Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
Lifetime never had any unscripted shows, really. It just had 'Project Runway,' which was a bit of an island.
~ Nancy Dubuc
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
~ Joseph Monninger
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
~ Peter Stuyvesant
As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.
~ Phil Lord
I would like to visit Bora Bora.
~ Lorrie Morgan
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
~ Fanny Kemble
I would love to have visited Cuba while Fidel Castro was alive.
~ Edith Bowman
On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
I sell escapism.
~ Jimmy Buffett
And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be.
~ Cliff Richard
It's really hard to get a chance in Barbados.
~ Jofra Archer
I love the island of Majorca. I love the beach at Cala Ratjada, which is on the far side of the island where not many Britons go.
~ John Torode
Antigua has 365 beaches, one for each day of the year, which I think is rather unique for such a small island.
~ Viv Richards
Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.
~ Brian Quinn
La palabra que yo traduzco por la isla volante o flotante es en el idioma original laputa, de la cual no he podido saber nunca la verdadera etimología. Lap, en el lenguaje antiguo fuera de uso, significa alto, y untuh, piloto; de donde dicen que, por corrupción, se deriva laputa, de lapuntuh.
~ Jonathan Swift
Ta?no u tom trenutku ?ovek pomisli: Šta ne bih dao za sre?u da budem pored tebe na Islandu u velikom nepomi?nom danu i da delim sadašnjost kao što se deli muzika ili ukus ploda. Ta?no u tom trenutku ?ovek je bio sa njom na Islandu.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I thought you said everything would be fine." "I also thought storing my most dangerous technology on a dimensionally unstable island full of mutant dinosaurs would be safe. Much as it pains me to admit it, I do make my share of mistakes." I
~ A. Lee Martinez
The mother says to her daughter: The heart is an island. To reach it, You must cross salt water. This is what the daughter fears: That joy, like sorrow, Must be reached by shipwreck, Tossed on the flotsam of tears.
~ A.E. Stallings
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel/memoir by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer that is every bit as charming as its title, and Island at War, a Masterpiece Theatre TV miniseries. In
~ Aaron Elkins
The Boyds, Prescott and Dorothy." Sue gave Ray a knowing look as she continued. "The Crescent Cove—Round Island Hunt Club, I guess they own it now." Ray was familiar with the location: a gated and fenced enclave that held the largest tract of private land in the county.
~ Aaron Stander
Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day, we have the most comprehensive log of everyone who has ever lived there since the ninth century. There have only been thirty-five generations of Icelanders. Since the end of the era of settlement, there's been very little immigration into Iceland of note.
~ Adam Rutherford
He maintains a stony expression rivalling the heads of Easter Island.
~ Adrian Cole
The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
~ Garry Hynes