Quotes About Island

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.

There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.

Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... Welcome to Jurassic Park.

Isla Nublar, Hammond explained, was not a true island. Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor. "Its volcanic origins can be seen all over the island," Hammond said. "There are steam vents in many places, and the ground is often hot underfoot. Because of this, and also because of prevailing currents, Isla Nublar lies in a foggy area.

Everything on that island is perfectly fine.

How many raptors are there?" she said. "I couldn't tell for sure, when I saw them. I thought nine." "I think there's more," Malcolm said. "I think eleven or twelve in all." "Twelve?" she said, glancing up at him. "On this little island?" "Yes.

They're both technicians. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. That's how you get an island like this. From thintelligent thinking.

Welcome to Jurassic Park

Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: "Welcome to Jurassic Park.

An investor who went from the stock market to the bond market was like a small, furry creature raised on an island without predators removed to a pit full of pythons.

In Singapore, I want to go to the water park on Sentosa Island.

Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.

When I was 15, I was not living with my parents anymore. They were on an island in the Caribbean and I was back in Paris, where I lived with my sisters between 15 and 19.

With all the things like Tinder and these different online sites that people use, 'Love Island' actually goes back to the traditional side of dating.

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.

Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of Siberia, in 1741. Hunted mercilessly by humans, within thirty years of its discovery by Steller this remarkable species was extinct.

It was a haven, a little island of light in the darkness of the downtown, very like the diner in Edward Hopper's painting 'The Nighthawks'.

all intents and purposes is colourless, redundant and hackneyed. Almost any other expression would be an improvement. 'He is, to all intents and purposes, king of the island' (Mail on Sunday) would be instantly made better by changing the central phrase to 'in effect' or removing it altogether. If the phrase must be used at all, it can always be shorn of the last two words. 'To all intents' says as much as 'to all intents and purposes'.

Could you imagine a busload from Milan parading around Trafalgar Square showing off their tattoos? "Why do you English behave like this?" one Italian asked me, believing that I was of the same nationality. "Is it something to do with being an island race? Is it because you don't feel European?

There ain't no island left for islanders like me.

But China has gone too far in the South China Sea with the island building." For years, the Chinese had been building military bases on the islands. They had vastly expanded their footprint by dumping sand and muck dredged from the ocean on top of the rock and reef formations, building man-made islands in order to set up more bases with an alarming array of military installations in the highly valuable international trade passage that threatened the U.S. Navy's Pacific domination.