I grew up on a tiny little island.
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
We’re not dead yet. ” – Sundown “Yet is the operative word. If that’s all that’s in the way, I’ll kill you and end it. Ren? Give me your knife. ” – Sasha “It’s their decision. ” – Ren “Oh, that’s it. You’re fired buddy. Get off my island until you learn to be a team player. ” – Sasha
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago when I made a [short] film on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe about a volcano that was about to explode and a single farmer refused to leave ["La Soufrière"].
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape. . . Sending humans to other planets. . . will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull. '
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.