Quotes of: Desert-island Keyword

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Jack Adams

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Alexa Ray Joel

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Gerry Cooney

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

Idina Menzel

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

Elizabeth George

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

Ban Ki-moon

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

James Gray

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Jason Alexander

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Julian Baggini

Dr. John Cawley: It's my job to treat the patients, not their victims.

Shutter Island

Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.

Alan Huffman

Richard Hannay: There are 20 million women in this island and I've got to be chained to you.

The 39 Steps

Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made one a boy again. He had noticed that this peculiar ...

Death Comes for the Archbishop

On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of civilisation had long since ebbed, leaving these scattered wrecks on the solitary shore. Are those waters to flow aga...

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert

The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened all the time for no reason and nothing good lasted for long. He'd been right about the world, but he wa...

The Magician's Land

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Daughter of the Forest

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Five on a Treasure Island

If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.

Firefly Island

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

The Brides of Rollrock Island

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Anne of the Island

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Anne of the Island