#island

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp ↗

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

#designing-women #immigrant #island #poetry #trinidad-tobago

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation. ↗

— Daniela Pestova

#exactly #four #get #i #island

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby. ↗

— Narciso Rodriguez

#i #island #must #need #once

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#being #island #joke #land #never

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#art

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#insulation #islands #isolation #life #originality

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams? ↗

— Diane Griffith

#greek-island #heart-warming #humerous #travel #true-adventure

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #gilligan-s-island #jace #laugh #mortal-instruments

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#imagination

They had certain Fixed Ideas implanted by Moreau in their minds which absolutely bounded their imaginations. They really were hypnotized, had been told certain things were impossible, and certain things were not to be done, and these prohibitions were woven into the texture of their minds beyond any possibility of disobedience or dispute. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#imagination