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Tag Name "Island" (539)

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You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
Lenny Bruce
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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell
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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
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
William Golding
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
William Golding
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
William Golding
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For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
William Golding
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Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
William Hurrell Mallock
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
William Irwin Thompson
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.
William J. Clinton
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
Albert Einstein
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Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
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Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.
Bob Denver
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The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
William Scranton
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On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.
Alan Shepard
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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
William Shakespeare
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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all
William Wordsworth
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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
Winston Churchill
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As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said No Trespassing. But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
Wyndham Lewis
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To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.
Adolf Hitler
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler
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