Tropical Islands Quotes

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Gloria Swanson

Islands, Keys, Paradise

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I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

Peter Singer

Art, Lying, Book

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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Carrie Fisher

Beach, People, Bird

"The Skinny On My New Life" by Carrie Fisher, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 29, 2011.

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On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.

John McPhee

Thinking, Islands, Race

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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

Alain de Botton

Home, Dwelling, Islands

"On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

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The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

Vivian Jenkins

Islands, Lines, May

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For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Carmen Electra

Summer, Islands, Hot

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