I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
Or I would be the rain itself, wreathing over the island, mingling in the quiet of moist places, filling its pores with its saturated breaths. And I would be the wind, whispering through the tangled woods, running airy fingers over the island’s fac...
I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.
Back in the 1800's, Ormsby Island was one of South Carolina's crown jewels. The island was owned by Maxwell Ormsby, a very wealthy man who liked to entertain everyone from heads of state to artists and authors and anyone who knew how to make money in...
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.
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
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.
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.
I've never even been to Long Island
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
