#island

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! ↗

— Donald L. Carcieri

#exciting #innovation #island #place #rhode

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#family #georgian #island #russian #via

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ↗

— Abe Fortas

#island #job #judging #lonely #lonely job

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#city #disproportionately #financial #financial services #i

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#after #another #ceased #continued #further

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#charleston #coast #funny #i #island

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#before #complex #does #each #ever

I like islands. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#islands #like