(313 quotes found)
“Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”
Dave Barry
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Winston Churchill
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
William Arthur Ward
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
Walt Disney
“More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.”
Cecil Beaton
“Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet -- but you should go ahead and print this, because it'll just make them sweat.”
Pete Wentz
“Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.”
Raymond Sokolov
“Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”
Nicholas Boileau
“I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.”
Mickey Rivers
