I grew up at a time in Singapore – the ’70s and ’80s – where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood. – Kevin Kwan
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: ‘Oh, how wonderful; I’m ready.’ – Leos Carax
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. – Josh Mandel
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on. – Joanna Newsom
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. – Louis Leakey
Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau.’ – Richard Stanley
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody. – Rush Limbaugh
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. – Raymond Sokolov
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. – Oliver Kahn
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. – Paul Cellucci
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee. – Richard Simmons
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate. – Richard Flanagan
Island Records was the first record label to… acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me. – Shawn Mendes
Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. – Romesh Gunesekera
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. – Richard Flanagan
Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire ‘great famine,’ the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn’t afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. – Robert Zubrin
As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali. – Richard Branson
First you wonder if they’re separate stories, but no, they’re not, they’re contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. – Robert Creeley
In my ‘Big Dinners’ cookbook, I recreated my mother’s recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. – Tom Douglas
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I’ve heard about him. – Yancy Butler
