#island

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. ↗

— William Floyd

#despotism #destruction #families #fate #fear

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#empire #every #found #island #prehistoric

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#beautiful #harbour #island #pink #sand

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind. ↗

— Bob Denver

#mind #want #wherever #you #your

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ↗

— John Donne

#entire #every #every man #island #itself

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#island #potential #remains #target #terrorist

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#areas #being #contrast #country #developed