Islands Quotes - Page 27

• I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

  Bob Cousy

  Sports, Heart, Ghetto

  "One-On-One With Bob Cousy". Interview with Clark Booth, www.goholycross.com. December 19, 2008.

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• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Alaska

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• So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.

  Bill Murray

  Rip, Laughing, Sailing

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• We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

  Bo Derek

  Thinking, Different, Three

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

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• Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Girl, Men

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• Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Christian, Imagination, Heaven

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Character

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• There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Civilization

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• Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Race

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• No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

  Liam Neeson

  Lonely, Men, Practice

  Source: collider.com

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• Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.

  Pitbull

  Artist, Men, Survival

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island

  Ice Prince

  House, Bananas, Married

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Writing, Shine On

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• We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Spiritual, Independent, Reality

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• Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

  James Russell Lowell

  Promise, Religion, Body

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.109

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• Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Journey, Grandparent, Youth

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• We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Night, Two, People

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• God lead us past the setting of the sun
  To wizard islands, of august surprise;
  God make our blunders wise.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Wise, Wisdom, Past

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Country, Memories

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.

  Judy Blundell

  Night, Long, Giving

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• An island of surety in a changing world.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, World

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• A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

  Lillian Hellman

  House, Solitude, Rooms

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Fire, Air, Water

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Ocean, Climate, Invasion

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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