#island

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #island




No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.


John Donne


#connectedness #for-whom-the-bell-tolls #inspirational #interdependence #isolation

The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.


Luke A.M. Brown


#lamb #non-silence #novel #food

Just because there's snow on the roof doesn't mean the fire's out, son


Marie Force


#big-mac #gansett-island #love

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.


L.M. Montgomery


#anne-of-the-island #husband #marriage #marriage

One day I saw the big jaguar,Calypso, jump up from the sand and run quickly, snarling, into the jungle. I looked around and the monkeys were jumping and screeching in the trees. Gazing across the water I saw something moving out there, getting closer. It was a canoe with three men paddling towards my shore. I started to smile and then I worried that they might want to kill me. I ran to my house and brought out my bow and arrows. I stood there on the beach, with my feet shoulder-width apart, and prepared for their arrival.


Doug Hiser


#jaguar #jungle #tropical-calypso #men

…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans


Lawrence Durrell


#science

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.


Gael Garcia Bernal


#any #apples #country #dictates #england

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.


David Copperfield


#discovered #i #islands

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.


Robert Creeley


#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.


William Dampier


#being #best #dry #generally #i