Islands Quotes - Page 34

• And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Water, Three

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• A bird, music and food -desert island items

  Michael Johnson

  Bird, Desert, Items

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• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

  James Wright

  Lying, Hammocks, Minnesota

  James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.

  John Newton

  Space, Long, Liberty

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.142

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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  Scott Adams

  Ignorance, Views, Sea

  "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

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• The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play... there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.

  Martin Scorsese

  Character, Editing, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am very attracted by the mysterious landscape of Easter Island. Not only because it is a piece of land that is further away from another, but also because of the beautiful statues of Moai that are there. To do a beautiful walk there, I would have to involve the Moai, and the Rapa Nui people who live on the island.

  Philippe Petit

  Beautiful, Easter, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.

  Mabel Cheung

  War, Home, Cities

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Overcoming

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• Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Ocean, Vegas, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In Hawaii, if you're invited to dinner, it's assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they're not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Children, Adventure, People

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis in Malibu, California, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 1, 2014.

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.

  Rebecca Miller

  Ocean, Writing, Ignorance

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

  Dave Barry

  Tv Shows, Ordinary, Survivor

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• Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Normal, Consciousness

  Alan Watts (1973). “Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship”, Vintage

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• National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Law, United States, Cyberspace

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• I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

  Jon M. Chu

  Needs, Enjoy, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Thinking, Use

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.118, Random House

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• A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

  Lorne Michaels

  Mother, Running, Uncles

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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Flames, Hearing

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• The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sea, Storm, Mountain

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Mixtures, Ellis Island, Knows

  "Gavin DeGraw speaks out on life and music". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. February 4, 2005.

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• It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars - for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

  Hans von Storch

  Vacation, Sea, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  America, Guy, Littles

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Growing Up, Ideas, Long

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

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