#island

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. ↗

— Jack Adams

#attacked #attacks #effect #enterprise #gilbert

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#grew #island #sense #special #together

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. ↗

— William Bell

#blues #called #club #hat #high

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#could #did #i #insane #island

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that. ↗

— Edie Falco

#i #i can #island #kid #large

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#empire #every #found #island #prehistoric

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#george #george w #governor #had #i

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#america #crowded #down #getting #go