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Quotes About Island

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
~ John Millington Synge
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
~ Paul Mazursky
if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
~ Anne Lamott
Don't go into that swamp, Quinn," Aunt Queen said, abruptly appealing to me, as if from the core of her being. "Don't go to that accursed Sugar Devil Island. I know your adventuresome spirit, Quinn. Don't be proud of your discovery. Don't go. You must stay away from that place.
~ Anne Rice
Only the lightning was fearless of the legends that said some evil dwelt in Sugar Devil Island: go there and you might never come back.
~ Anne Rice
Should we start making preparations here? (Tory) Punk-ass won't come to my island! He knows better. You don't tap on the Devil's shoulder unless you're willing to dance to his tune. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Varyk slid his gaze over to the fire that was blazing in the ornate Victorian hearth. "You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I"d been on the island with Gilligan, he"d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.
~ St. Lucia
In Truk, located in the Marshall Islands, people have traditionally believed in an outer world that corresponds in some ways to our modern conception of outer space.
~ John E. Mack
bean raised in Kona nearby on the big Island of Hawaii.
~ John J. Gobbell
The body of water between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the Muskeget Channel. "I
~ Elin Hilderbrand
This island chooses people, Aunt Greta said. It chose Bo and me, and I think it's chosen you as well.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
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It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
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town as "Nantucket Visitor Services"), 508-228-0925. Visitor Services keeps a list of available hotel rooms (and, yes, there were nights in the past few summers when the island was completely sold out!). They have a host of helpful practical information for your visit! Website: Nantucket-ma.gov.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
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The Blue Book Time and again I'm asked for recommendations of must-do's while visiting Nantucket. As Lizbet Keaton says in this novel, "The world needs a Nantucket guidebook written by an island
~ Elin Hilderbrand