Quotes of: Desert-island Keyword

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Don Van Vliet

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated t...

Michael Ignatieff

You can lock your door from a thief, but not from a damned liar.

Virgin Islander

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and hea...

The Secret Island

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: an...

No Man Is An Island - Meditation XVII

Officer at Police Dock: Hey! Ya got any cigarettes? Roger: Any of you guys got cigarettes? [Francine shakes her head] Roger: No, I'm sorry. Stephen: Where you headed? Officer at Police Dock: Down river. We got an idea maybe we can make it to the isla...

Dawn of the Dead

Willing is a good man, but Able is a better one.

Virgin Islander

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

A Coney Island of the Mind

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

The Island of the Day Before

Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self

The Nustas on The Island of The Sun

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.

A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends

After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

Evangeline Lilly

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

Leos Carax

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Nelson Mandela

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Meriwether Lewis

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

The Little Prince

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

Joel Salatin