#island

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. ↗

— Raymond Sokolov

#devoted #island #jersey #lunch #manhattan

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#feel #i #i feel #islands #sea

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#art #article #artistic #beauty #character

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

— John Carmack

#deserted #engine #game #i #island

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. ↗

— Donald L. Carcieri

#innovation #island #public #public service #recipe

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#courage

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#channel #crime #detective #hard-boiled #islands

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#censor #channel #crime #detective #edit

Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God. ↗

— Albert Vigoleis Thelen

#god #happiness #the-island-of-second-sight #art