It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.
We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
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 5050. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop!
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)
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.
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
