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Island Quotes

The odd thing about ‘Cripple of Inishmaan’ is it’s never actually been performed on the island.

– Garry Hynes

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs – I’ve never gotten over it.

– Harold Feinstein

I haven’t been on very many vacations, but I like Coronado Island, and Disney World was fun.

– Hayley McFarland

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

– John Donne

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn’t go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

– James Gray

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

– James Wolcott

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in ‘Pinocchio.’

– Jonah Hill

I’d rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

– John Carmack

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We’d find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

– Jimmy Smits

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I’d heard all the stories.

– James Gray

I’m from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus – on the margins of that, actually.

– Jhumpa Lahiri

If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It’s not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

– Jeremy Stoppelman

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

– Jack Adams

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

– Bobby Jindal

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

– Beto O’Rourke

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.’

– Bertrand Piccard

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

– Bob Sheppard

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

– Brendan I. Koerner

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

– Alex Campbell

Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.

– Aaron Neville

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

– Al Sharpton

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

– Cara Delevingne

I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on ‘SNL,’ and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot ‘Hot Rod’ in. Like, that’s what we talk about.

– Bill Hader

‘What comes next?’ is the constant question I’m asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

Gilligan’s Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

– Bob Denver

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

– Arlo Guthrie

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

– Brad Thor

I read ‘Treasure Island’ for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

– Andrew Motion

I’m a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn’t the place for me.

– Alice McDermott

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