The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It l...
Women and glass are always in danger.
Time is longer than a rope.
it will be miraculous, very miraculous.
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
Talent without skill is like a desert without an oasis.
A man will be born in his house and will die in the desert.
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.
Felicia: [singing] A desert holiday, let's pack the drag away. You take the lunch and tea, I'll take the ecstasy. Fuck off you silly queer, I'm getting out of here. A desert holiday, hip hip hip hip hooray!
England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships...Other islands fade as I brood upon them.
Teddy Daniels: I could come get you, get, get you off this island. Rachel 2: Haven't you heard a word I've said? The only way off the island is the ferry, and they control it. You'll never leave here.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from...
Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.
Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I h...
