Death Valley is really wide-open – it’s bigger than Rhode Island – and it’s less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there’s lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. – Gus Van Sant
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. – Ezra Stiles
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. – Dave Barry
My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle’s hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don’t get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street. – Gilbert Gottfried
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. – Francesca Annis
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. – Paul Theroux
I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic. – Matthew Fox
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass. – Edward P. Jones
I’d go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that’s how it started. – David Blaine
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island. – Gerry Adams
I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. – Nelson Mandela
I’d been brought up on… American TV: ‘Lou Grant,’ ‘Starsky & Hutch;’ ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ – Pierce Brosnan
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. – Michael Palin
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
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. – Lincoln Chafee
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. – Jack Reed
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people. – Martin McGuinness
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you’d rather not see. They’re more like mongrels. – Jerry Lawler
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. – James Theodore Bent
The city of Cork – the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are – is actually an island, a river island. – John Jeremiah Sullivan
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it’s all downhill from that point. – Kevin Hart
