Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight.
No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
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.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring. . . 'How to Build a Boat. '
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.
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.
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella