Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Vernon Howard
Edwin Markham
Bernard Baruch
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
R. Buckminster Fuller
All authors
Today's birthdays
1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle
1808 - Gerard De Nerval
1930 - Harvey Milk
1907 - Laurence Olivier
1928 - T. Boone Pickens
1974 - A. J. Langer
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
President
Businesswoman
Psychologist
Philosopher
Chef
Businessman
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Island Quotes
Island Quotes
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Father
Politician
Our
Our Father
Kids
Members
Out
Fred
Threaten
Entire
Adult
Soon
House
Call
Knows
Island
Governor
Get
Controversial
Jail
Us
Grocery
Who
Gang
Now
Night
I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.
Ken Howard
Long
Long Island
Firefighters
Island
Were
Lot
Who
Lived
Cops
Raised
I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.
Ken Howard
Black
Long
High
Guys
Long Island
Island
Up
Six
Grew
Team
Playing
As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.
Kenneth Langone
Construction
Job
Long
First
Jobs
Supermarket
Variety
Long Island
Delivering
Had
First Job
Island
Boy
Dug
Shop
Different
Little
Newspapers
Then
Worked
Butcher
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!
Kerry Washington
Woman
College
Ellis
President
President Obama
Immigrants
Obama
Could
Student
Student Loans
Volunteers
Re-Elect
Without
Island
Person
Afforded
Just
African-American
Granddaughter
Working
Help
Who
Actress
Here
Millions
Loans
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
Kevin Kwan
Life
World
My Life
First
Shine
Stage
Back
Spent
Striving
Peninsula
Tropical
Singapore
Island
Still
Years
Up
Tip
Then
Growing
Growing Up
World Stage
Early
I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.
LaChanze
Woman
Women
Dark
Girl
Young
Skin
Baby
Once
Darker
Given
Purple
Color
Beaten
Taken
Island
Am
Go
Hue
Very
Roles
African-American
African-American Women
Young Girl
Specific
Her
Start
Tone
Peasant
We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
Larry Ellison
Water
Agriculture
Solar
Energy
Organic
Increasing
Location
Ideal
Couple
Island
Fresh
Commercial
Going
Dependent
Convert
Available
Use
It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
Larry Ellison
Work
Beautiful
Me
People
Own
Engineering
Think
Project
Feel
Feels
Like
Prosperous
Eden
Island
Surreal
Get
Where
Sustainable
Anyone
Pacific
Create
Really
Cool
I went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated by iguanas, and it's not allowed.
Lauren Mayberry
You
Live
Solely
Allowed
Bahamas
Obviously
Because
Island
Full
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson
Someone
New
Looks
Island
America
Yorker
New Yorker
Across
Who
Lives
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
Laurie Simmons
Art
Great
You
School
Long
Ways
Attached
Long Island
New
Implying
Comfortable
Island
Real
Stigma
Real Artist
Coming
Were
Art School
York
Artist
Crafty
New York
Suburbia
Found
Neck
You don't usually find an island in a New York kitchen.
Leandra Medine
You
Find
Kitchen
New
Island
York
New York
If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation - you know, just chilling out.
Lee Min-ho
Time
Good
You
Travel
Philippines
Out
Would
Like
Know
Island
Go
Just
Chilling
Which
Popular
Vacation
Chance
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
Leos Carax
Wonderful
Cinema
Thought
Island
Ready
How
Discovered
Oh
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.
Lesley Manville
Music
Me
Song
Will
Guitarist
Down
Classic
Area
Write
Open
New
Bailey
Name
Island
Hear
Discovered
Lot
Up
Quickly
Listen
Desert
Desert Island
I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.
Liam Hemsworth
Life
Me
Water
Down
Think
Adjust
More
Crowded
Island
Go
Lot
Up
Than
America
Getting
Where
Grew
Much
Helped
'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.
Lilly Singh
Happiness
Beautiful
You
Happy
Fight
Worth
Fighting
Synonym
Only
Message
Island
The Only Thing
Place
Really
Ever
Hardest
Thing
Things
I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
Lori Petty
Man
Woman
Age
Women
Caribbean
Definitely
Would
Johnny
Never
Industry
Because
Island
Dude
Than
Get
Pirates
Maybe
Wanted
After
Depp
Prefer
Much
Certain
Certain Age
Actor
Bombshell
You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.
Lorraine Bracco
Family
You
Remember
Black
Long
Parents
Say
Neighborhood
Kids
Black Family
About
Long Island
Know
Island
Hearing
Up
Where
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Things
Basically
I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.
Louis Leterrier
Alone
You
Somewhere
France
Atlantic
Guy
Small
Stuck
Like
French
Because
Island
America
Middle
Where
Little
Us
Really
Little Thing
Thing
I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
Luke Evans
Water
Car
White
Down
Bit
Out
Glaciers
Take
Days
Island
Climb
Go
South
Off
Jump
Five
Six
Six Days
Planes
Used
Bridges
In Long Island, people care about how much money you have. Even I did when I was growing up. I never wanted kids to see my mom's house because I was embarrassed that they'd tell everyone, 'Oh, Madison's mom is poor!' And she was definitely far from poor.
Madison Beer
Mom
You
People
Money
Care
Long
Everyone
Definitely
Kids
Embarrassed
Tell
Madison
See
About
Long Island
Never
House
She
Because
Island
How
How Much
How Much Money
Up
Did
Oh
Wanted
Poor
Far
Much
Even
Growing
Growing Up
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
Time
Me
Words
First
Reading
About
Read
Sure
First Time
Island
Understood
Forget
Going
Stop
Certainly
Treasure
My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There, we had lunch at the famed Trattoria al Gatto Nero da Ruggero - one of the most incredible meals of our lives.
Maneet Chauhan
Day
Husband
Lunch
Incredible
Our
Our Lives
Spent
Had
Anniversary
Most
Venice
Island
Italy
Meals
Al
Lives
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
Marg Helgenberger
Time
You
Spend
Month
Hey
Say
Spielberg
Directors
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Around
Island
Were
Role
Any
Going
May
Rolls
Flash
Want
Interested
Number
Soderbergh
By The Time
Load more quotes
No more island quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Another
Always
Any