Quotes of: Desert-island Keyword

You named the chicken, Chicken?" She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.

On the Island

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

Jurassic Park

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

Satin Island

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

No Man Is an Island

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

No Man Is an Island

Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." "That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.

Treasure Island

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

Treasure Island

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

Until the Beat Stops

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

Tessanne Chin

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

Thomas More

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Timothy Noah

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

Kevin Hart

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Mitch Kapor

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

Nellie Bly

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Danny Glover

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.

Jerry Lawler

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

James Gray