Quotes About Island

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

have to get to Shoreless Isle? You'll have to go back in time from there, right?

westbound lanes of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Two hundred feet above the frigid waters off Yerba Buena Island, the car horns, bangs, and skids of a chain-reaction

In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely inhospitable cosmic archipelago.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. It is self-discipline that enables you to "vote yourself off the island." It is the key to a great life and, without it, no lasting success is possible.

A Terrestrial Paradise, an Amazon Island, abounding in gold and certainly 'infested with many griffins.

Jerry Crosby didn't live on the island. He lived miles away on the mainland, in a western municipality that grandly called itself Royal Palm Beach.

The Curse of the Iguana," he muttered to himself, slouched in the rain.

Stranahan didn't consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.

Cuban cigars

The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions, perhaps hundreds of billions of galaxies notable neither in mass nor in brightness nor in how its stars are configured and arrayed. Some modern deep sky photographs show more galaxies beyond the Milky Way than stars within the Milky Way. Every one of them is an island universe containing perhaps a hundred billion suns. Such an image is a profound sermon on humility.

Now look , snapped the Dean, we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?

Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death.

But we might go to war to keep some damn island that's only useful in case we have to go to war, right?

The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.

Here was another item detailing the wrecking of a vessel in ice and snow off Prince's Bay on Staten Island.

One of the Buddha's most widely quoted phrases is attadipa saranam, which means taking refuge (saranam) in the island (dipa) of self (atta).

You don't usually find an island in a New York kitchen.