Quotes for All
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what’s the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners … Read more
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there’s a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. Gael Garcia Bernal
In Hawaii, if you’re invited to dinner, it’s assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they’re not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations. Gabrielle Reece
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Ezra Stiles
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you. Evelyn Waugh
I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We’re Cuban, and it’s a hot island. Why not? Eva Mendes
Passion is our ground, our island – do others exist? Eudora Welty
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Etty Hillesum
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. Erwin W. Lutzer
There’s the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I’m stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it’s there. Esperanza Spalding