“We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it.”
Tom Hanks
“[An amazing host and a great guest list is one thing, but when the champagne is gone and everyone goes home, what is it that separates a good party from a great one?] The way I look at a successful event is positive press, ... As a publicist, I judge a party not on my fun, but on getting positive press from publications, and the celebrity turnout. I can't remember the last time I had fun at one of my events. If I have a good time, it's not a good sign.”
Lizzie Grubman
“Charles Darwin noticed the result. He observed that in some island chains, there would be islands at one end with young volcanic cones, middle islands with cones in different stages of erosion, and at the other end, nothing left but coral reefs.”
Hubert Staudigel
“When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again speaking with one voice, T&T must decisively seek the support of Brazil and Mexico, with the region's assistance, in delicately balancing our position between our revolutionary neighbour only seven miles away and our commercial and social ties with North America and Europe.”
Wendell Mottley
“Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.”
Dorothy Parker
“We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power.”
Mark Twain
“I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.”
Joseph Addison
