383 Island Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI. Joanna Going

Mom Family Mother Father Community Settled Part Over Island Came Providence Italy Canadians Children Who Large Her

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family. Joanna Going

Mom Family Women Father Parents National Before Birth Back Born Council Federal Simply Catholic Trade Island Editor Were Commission Where Rhode Rhode Island Moving Roots Working Awaiting Washington Raise

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on. Joanna Newsom

News People Guess Interviews Francisco East Out Bay Come Island Done San San Francisco Interest Shown Shows Fast Travels

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage. Joanne Harris

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969. Joe Morton

Long Long Island Island Doing Off Manhattan Theater Started University

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. John Bates Clark

Man Be True Isolation Living Would Would-Be Constitute He True Make Him Island Makes Trading Were His Ceases Begins Owner Clothing Literally Fruits Themselves Product Monarch Income Raises

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game. John Carmack

Game Rather Island Than Engine Search Search Engine Deserted

Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me. John Hodgman

Me You Will Long Live Deficiencies Asthmatic Those Dinosaurs Proper Only Civilization Park Know Island Got How Am Off Effectively Person Die Jurassic Jurassic Park Bred Creature Ever Thing Here

I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun. John John Florence

Mom School Big Would Week Weekend Take California Island Contest Then Us Really Fun Elementary Elementary School

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. John Millington Synge

Death Woman Grief Somewhere Rage Every Complaint Seems Contain Over Island Passionate Years Personal Native Eighty Whole Keen Lurks

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. John Millington Synge

Time Knowledge Wind Enough General Direction General Knowledge Island Curiously Depends

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. John Millington Synge

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After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be. Johnny Depp

Girl First Down Secret See Window Someone Had Road Looked Well Island Said Go Sale Walked Escape Pirates Done Oh Movie After Down The Road Vacation

I first encountered fish jerky during a marlin tournament in Kona, Hawaii. It was steeped in the island flavors of ginger, soy, and pineapple. Jonathan Miles

First Marlin Ginger Hawaii Tournament Island Fish Encountered Soy Flavors

Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.' Jonathan Raban

Liberal Island Curious Seattle

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. Jose Andres

Alone People Tree Would Rather Island Lot Get Prefer Palm

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Joseph Monninger

Home Once Island Off Owned Cape Coast Nova Nova Scotia

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. Joshua Foer

Work You Sometimes Looking Back Way Out Brooklyn About Something Take Pushy Over New Island Makes Train New Yorkers Sentences Produce Really Shoulder Your Laptop Lived

Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it. Juan Pablo Galavis

Love Absolutely New Countryside Fell Island North New Zealand Lake Zealand

In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else. Kaui Hart Hemmings

Work Focus Long Live Think Setting Else Characters About Long Shot Putting Town Like Overall Tight Island Makes Narrow Close-Up Different Place Which Anywhere Anywhere Else Then Shot Shots Sweep View Wide

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