Island Quotations | Page 2

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Shelter in winter that day --a storm coming, but in the leeof an island in a cover with friends --oh, little bright cup of sun.

Most of the time there's just one associate producer who's also acting as a camera operator. At certain times, we'll send a cameraman and an audio person. But even in those cases, there is zero interaction, unless the producer decides to interview the castaway about what's going on. You ask anybody who's spent a night on Exile Island and I think they'll tell you that they felt very much alone.

Mugabe has pushed his luck too far in terms of fighting the world. There's no way a country can live as an island and the fact that he's been defying both national and international opinion has had an effect on the general feelings within ZANU-PF,

One reason New York leads the nation is due to the tremendously strong programs in place on Long Island - it's really impressive.

Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.

Plum Island was built with isolation in mind for a specific reason. We understand the highest levels of security would take place, but we also know mistakes happen.

Plum Island is an aging laboratory and the department is looking at all the options for establishing the new laboratory. That option includes expanding the current lab at Plum Island.

NBC allows me the freedom to be creative and to think differently and I hope we can bring a fresh look to the current crop of television dramas. This series will be shot in an exotic, remote island location, similar to a feature film, which will make it a powerful television event.

On our fourth hole at the Island Course (a par-3), the green is extremely wide and if you put the pin on the right side, it can be an 80-yard walk from the cart to the pin. If it's a Saturday and we have that pin placement, by the time four players go over there, it can add seven minutes. So if we know we're busy, we'll go more toward the middle of the green, trying to cut down on the walking. We do the same thing with tee markers. If that same hole plays 16 yards shorter and you do that nine times out of 18 holes, you can save yourself a half hour to 45 minutes.

On Sundays, CHARMED has stood as an island of success for over a year,

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.

I would ask you to envision this island not as it is but as it could be, as part of the greatest harbor district in the world.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

If this ruling were to stand, low-level federal bureaucrats in Washington would have the power to decide what parts of the Ocean State should and shouldn't be under control of Rhode Island citizens.

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

I bet Rhode Island is getting very nervous.

Carlos works extremely hard on defense. He is big and extremely strong. Now he is starting to understand where the help is coming from. He is learning how to pressure his man into the help, and he isn't feeling like he's out there on an island so much.

Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Basically, we had a two-hour meeting where we both came to the same exact solution to how to do the show, which was it had to have a lot of characters, the characters had to be really mysterious and the island itself had to be even more mysterious than they were.

Imagine taking the island named after the greatest conservation president of all time and turning it into condo developments? I don't know what even to say about that.

I love Bogue Banks, which is an island off the coast in North Carolina. It's a beautiful, if hurricane plagued, area of the country. I own a home there.

I feel that the design with the central island is appealing. It's easily accessible for customers, has a nice large counter area, and is completely surrounded by impulse items like candy and magazines.

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

I expected a lot more from Phillip Island but we had problems from the first day,

I don't think one moment sticks out more than any other. It was just great to play with him. We had a great game on the Island (against the New York Islanders) and scored a couple of goals. It was really fun. And the game against Atlanta where he scored five points -- that was memorable, too. I'll never forget that.

Given the publicity of this case, you're not going to run into anybody here who hasn't heard about it, ... Everybody at Parris Island knows about it.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

He is making it easy for Luke Nevill. Luke has a mentor in front of him who he competes against in practice. Luke is not out on an island by himself.

Having been up in an area where they have a lot of good actors, she's never had a part this big before. She has transformed herself from a Long Island housewife to a Southern truck driver's wife and developed that character quite well.

Today is the first day of the last chapter of my life, ... It is here on Sado island that I will hopefully live my remaining days with my wife and children.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

We take pride in our hands-on involvement in the day-to-day operations of each Sterling Glen residence, and the move to Long Island will provide our executive management team with an even closer proximity to the residences.

Hawaii is an island state, thousands of miles from anywhere. It's as if we are in a boat, caught in treacherous waters, needing to set sail for a better place. If I were to chart a course north, but you insisted on going south, then we would go nowhere. We would stay stuck exactly where we started.

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking, ... In Rhode Island and all across the country, American families are offering their homes, posting their offers on the Internet and on community bulletin boards. My wife Marisa and I offer our home for any family who is displaced.

We looked at the history of Rhode Island football. In 107 years there have been 31 winning seasons. It seems like when we get past the homecoming game and daylight savings time our season kind of turns into the dark.

He wanted to be a pilot for Aloha like his dad, who had put in years and years as a pilot for Aloha. And his twin brother Mike got in at Island Air, where he works now.

Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.

The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to close the perimeter down and left our post on an island. It's no fun being on an island with Eric Williams. He's going to push you into the ocean. He's a terrific player. I told him before the game I was so proud of the way he's developed his body and his stamina.

Kobe, he has really strong will. When he's in the zone like that, he's definitely on an island by himself.

I wouldn't be surprised if much of the island is under water. It's just a speck on the map.

I would say it's probably the strongest storm to hit this island in 50 years.

Just like Kings Island has to have a new ride every year or so, we need to have a new thing.

Juan was a modern-day Ellis Island immigrant. He left his native country of Argentina to make a new life for himself and his family as a pilot in the United States.

I think in the past we've had some concerns with not paying for our bills, but we've been doing a lot better with that these last two years, we've actually been able to get textbooks on island and in the schools before the opening of the school year.

It appears that Waianae is becoming the capital of landfills for the island of Oahu. I think it's pretty bad when you consider that we don't produce 95 percent of the trash.

I think it's essential. In the past 10 years, where people live and where people work on Long Island has changed.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

It cost $6,000 to $10,000 a lot to acquire park space in 2002, 2003. Now it costs $90,000 a lot. The parks master plan put the (total) costs at $70 million. That's not even close today. People want their kids to play soccer. There isn't even a playground, not one, north of Pine Island Road. That is an expanding part of the city.

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

I think all these kids are true all-stars. Over the years this game has always been very competitive. This is about island pride, and this is about being the best in the V.I.

It gave the co-workers something to talk about and a chance to fantasize about buying an island or a plane.

I was able to plan the art program at the local YMCA in Rhode Island for their summer program.

I went to the Big Island of Hawaii and sat in a house on a point by the ocean. I thought about some of the amazing things I had seen recently in the industry. Two of the most spectacular were the emergence of the browser 18 months before, and Amazon.com.

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

I think there's no other place in the entire world where four major key world religions are meeting themselves on one small island and they all make up a substantial part of the population. If this was easy to solve, it would have been solved a long time back.

Our island home/ Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.

Our island has been the source of eagles for both mainland populations and northern islands. It's possible that pair bonds will break. It's taken us 25 years to get to the point that we're at.

Our hour has come, ... We are a small island nation, placed by the gods beside a growing Chinese giant. We must have oil.

Parents are starting to understand that this could be one of the tools for (their children) to get an education. Every kid knows that that's an opportunity for them to get off the island and go look for education.

Our girls were out there to have some fun. When you're going against a team that has this kind of talent level, that can be kind of difficult, though. ... We all know what the trip to Hilton Head Island is like.

Our young people are dying physically, mentally, and spiritually. I was told by the Long Island educational system that I would never amount to anything. Now, this ex-gang member is educated.

Our young men laid it on the line but Rhode Island made the plays and we did not. It was a one-possession game. We didn't execute the way we would have liked to.

Other schools would have offered him. Once BYU got in the picture, other people wanted to trip him. Especially with the neighbor island kids, if UH doesn't get out, then the other schools are less apt to come out.

Remote forest areas that function as refuges for threatened island species are increasingly rare and should receive the highest priority for conservation on the larger islands of the Pacific.

Please do not try to come back to the island. ... Hopefully, in the next couple of days, this island will be cleaned up and we'll get you home.

Pine Island Road is just one strip mall after another with trash. We might as well sell and leave.

Picnic Island is probably one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Why would we not want it as part of our boundaries?

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

State regulators twice rejected the proposed Islander East pipeline because it poses a significant threat to water quality and critical marine resources in the Long Island Sound,

Staten Island (the Yankees' New York-Penn League affiliate) knew we were going to do this. They're planning to retaliate.

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

My mind is always soothed when I imagine myself sitting on my South Sea island at night,

Long Island Sound is a regional area, and regional funding is definitely required to help solve this problem.

Long Island is where we invented the modern suburb, and whether Long Island will remake itself for the 21st century, that's the challenge.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

Long Island has one of the oldest and richest histories of duck hunting in America.

Long Island did good this year. It's the price that got them in, it's a good deal.

Long Beach Island doesn't have the adequate beach and dune system.

I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.

It doesn't fix it; it mitigates it a little. It does not change the underlying high cost structure of Long Island ... but it's a very necessary Band-Aid at least in the short-term.

It doesn't mean that in this island environment that there can't have been some kind of vermin or termite infestation. But basically you have a good set of poles out here. Something happened that is very serious and we need to take a full look at it.

It is exciting to have these great musicians perform at a dynamic performance venue like Long Island University's Kumble Theater. I am grateful to the University for providing the central Brooklyn community with access to world-class productions at the Kumble Theater.

The aim of COREPER is to enhance co-operation between the two communities of the island and create a better climate, so as to increase the chance of resumption of talks for a settlement on the Cyprus problem.

I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

We have one county with 20 percent of the (district's) population and that's Rock Island County. We have to field a candidate that can carry Rock Island County.

Well, darn her anyway. I wonder why she left Baby Island off?

We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.

We're all island people, we enjoy one another's company, but don't invade us.

We're all aware of it (the streak). But we're not really concerned about last year or anything that happened before that. We're focused on this season right now. The only thing we remember from last year is Buffalo Island (Central).

Well it could be. Rhode Island has been the younger team, and they matured. They're an older, more mature team, and it paid off.