Top 1200 Desert Island Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
'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.
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.
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
I went to high school in Rockville Center on Long Island. It's this small, soccer-loving town that my parents moved to, from Queens, before my brother and I were born.
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
In the kitchen, go for two tone cabinets. Maybe the island is a complementary color - that generally doesn't cost any more money, but gives you a designer look.
Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.
Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.
No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.
China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.
Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.
I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.
Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show.
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island.
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
I have been to beaches in many parts of the world, but Maldives is amazing. The country is very small, people are simple, each island is so tiny and the food is good.
