Islands Quotes - Page 28

• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Turkeys

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

  Novalis

  England, Englishmen

  "Fragments". Book by Novalis, 1799.

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• I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Real, Struggle

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• Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.
  [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;
  On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Honor, Plus, Shore

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• the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Ocean, White, Recipes

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• Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

  Stella Benson

  Ocean, Animal, Gregarious

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Tree, Java, Shade

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Opposites, Maps

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• No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Rhode Island, Important

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• What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Dog, Italian, Philadelphia

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• A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

  Paula Fox

  War, Cities, Paris

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Practice, Giving, Wish

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4473, Simon and Schuster

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• Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Juan

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• In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Possibility

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• Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Awareness

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• The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, World

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• The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path

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• When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Stopping, Possibility

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• You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Push Yourself

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• You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Shapes, Able

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• England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

  Caryl Churchill

  Children, Fall, Clouds

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.

  Mary Kingsley

  Flower, Mean, Home

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• Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Might, Quitting, Born

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• I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Summer, Mother, Beach

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