Isle Quotes - Page 4

• Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, Blessed, Needs

  James Thurber (1996). “Writings and Drawings”, Library of America

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, May, Achilles

  "Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Evil, House, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Horse, Moon, Greatness

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). “High Time for Heroes”, p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

  Penelope Keith

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

  Robert Duvall

  Country, America, Influence

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• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

  Terri Windling

  Love, Girl, Passion

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• In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an awesome vision of the Lord Jesus, risen from the dead. Then John says, 'When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.' He tells us not only the vision itself, but the profound effect it had on him. It utterly prostrated him before the Lord until He came and laid His right hand on him and said 'Fear not.'

  Roy Hession

  Jesus, Book, Feet

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• It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  British, Monotony

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• Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Needs, Green

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.217

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• The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

  Duke Snider

  Boys, Years, Mind

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

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• When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

  George Mikes

  Mean, People, Kingdoms

  George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

  Robert Herrick

  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

  Tess Gerritsen

  Thinking, Drs, Impervious

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• Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Father, Age

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• Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 29

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• For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.

  Susan Brigden

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

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• Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdoms a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Men, Suits, More Time

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• I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop!

  Brian Regan

  Apples, Pork, Juice

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• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  Zakk Wylde

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sea, Two, Sailing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

  Tom Waits

  Islands, Sight, Two

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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