Quotes of: Long-island Keyword

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We are all a long time dead.

French

It is a long road that has no turning.

Irish

A contented ass enjoys a long life.

Portuguese

Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that in the twentieth century we lived through an age of im...

Bette Davis

But it doesn't happen that way, I keep telling myself knowingly and sadly. Only in our fraternity pledges and masonic inductions, our cowboy movies and magazine stories, not in our real-life lives. For, the seventeenth-century humanist to the contrar...

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy l...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear when I locked the door of her cell behind me? That would be like saying that the writing of this book, over which I ha...

Gene Wolfe

Tex: Do you have a family back home? Billy Hayes: Yeah, a mother, father, sister and brother living in Babylon, Long Island. Tex: It's gonna be tough for them. You'll have to tell them about what you're in sooner or later. Say, how much did you pay t...

Midnight Express

We all long for something. Midgets long to be long, but I long to belong.

Sleepwalking is restercise

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

Desolation Island

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

Smog City

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

No Man Is an Island

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

No Man Is an Island

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Treasure Island

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

The Tale of the Unknown Island

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

Leos Carax

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Patrick McGoohan

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Roddy Doyle

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

Tom Felton