Deserted Island Quotes

• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Islands, People, Forever

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• Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

  Steven Wright

  Book, Islands, Desert

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

  Willem Dafoe

  Cds, Islands, Decision

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  Anna Friel

  Eye, Islands, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

  Andy Gibb

  Islands, Two, Desert

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• You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sauce, Wonder, Coming Back

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

  Jonathan Hull

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Dream, Nice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.64, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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

  John Carmack

  Islands, Games, Search Engine

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• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Islands, Champagne

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• There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Islands, Needs, Care

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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

  Tom Felton

  Stars, Nice, Islands

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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