370 Quotes About Islands

  • Author Lenny Bruce
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    You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

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  • Author Libba Bray
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    Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

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  • Author Libba Bray
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    There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

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  • Author Nellie Bly
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    But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

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  • Author Nellie Bly
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    The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

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  • Author Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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    Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]

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  • Author Ray Bradbury
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    Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

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