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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. -- Walt Disney
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. -- Woody Guthrie
I never watched 'Harper's Island.' -- Dave Foley
I'm from Long Island. Strong Island. -- Chris Messina
I've never even been to Long Island -- Meg Cabot
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. -- Elbert Hubbard
It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. -- Sherwood Schwartz
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. -- Mitch Kapor
The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target. -- Vito Fossella
[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990. -- Sharon Jones
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. -- Arlo Guthrie
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. -- Thornton Wilder
I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island. -- Kevin Connolly
I will get married when I build a house in Banana Island -- Ice Prince
Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind. -- Bob Denver
The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland. -- Mehgan Heaney-Grier
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- James Wright
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. -- David R. Brower
It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area. -- Gordon Ramsay
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. -- Diane von Furstenberg
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island. -- Johnny Carson
I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies. -- Judd Apatow
Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life. -- Lauren Conrad
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. -- Foxy Brown
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! -- Donald L. Carcieri
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. -- Idina Menzel
I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island. -- Syesha Mercado
The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. -- Tim Bishop
Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris. -- Gordon Ramsay
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK. -- George R. R. Martin
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design. -- Stephen Sprouse
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. -- Kathy Griffin
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories. -- James Gray
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. -- Ezra Stiles
I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' -- Pierce Brosnan
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression. -- Rick Riordan
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. -- Tim Bishop
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. -- Paul Cellucci
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Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. -- Cassandra Clare
I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.' -- Tom Hanks
Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. -- Theo Rossi
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. -- Nelson Mandela
And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures. -- Ellen Page
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. -- Elizabeth George
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary. -- Lincoln Chafee
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. -- Mark Twain
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. -- Dennis Miller
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. -- Gavin MacLeod
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. -- Don Rickles
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. -- Billy Bush
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago. -- Nat Hentoff
I haven't been on very many vacations, but I like Coronado Island, and Disney World was fun. -- Hayley McFarland
I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional. -- Sophie Anderton
Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. -- Minnesota Fats
[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants. -- Gordon Ramsay
Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island. -- Paula White
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. -- Criss Angel
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. -- Rebecca McNutt
Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. -- Heather McDonald
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. -- Spike Lee
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I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco. -- Don Maloney
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. -- Charlie Day
The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. -- Donald L. Carcieri
I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. -- Gerry Cooney
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. -- L. David Mech
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. -- Yancy Butler
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. -- Josh Mandel
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. -- Jack Reed
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island. -- Jesse Jackson
In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there. -- Peter Som
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. -- Helena Christensen
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. -- Ricky Jay
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world. -- Halford Mackinder
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. -- John Mortimer
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. -- Nicolas Cage
There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds. -- Susan Isaacs
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
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. -- William Styron
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. -- Al Aronowitz
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
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. -- Jeff Foxworthy
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast. -- Judy Garland
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean. -- Ann Wright
It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets. -- David Krumholtz
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it. -- Harold Feinstein
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. -- Alexa Ray Joel
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 wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island. -- Peter Jackson
Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. -- Jason Scott Lee
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. -- Jason Scott Lee
Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G. -- Carol Leifer
I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf. -- Tom Doak
Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here. -- Charles Barkley
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. -- Tim Bishop
I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town. -- Liam Hemsworth
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin. -- Robert Kiyosaki
He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute. -- Rainbow Rowell
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast -- Ronald Reagan
The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. -- Nellie Bly
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. -- James Gray
Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it. -- Susan Isaacs
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time. -- Harold Feinstein
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever. -- Rolonda Watts
Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does. -- James Langevin
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape. -- James Gray
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The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there. -- Don Winslow
I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs. -- Gordon Ramsay
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did. -- N. C. Wyeth
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons. -- Bartolome de las Casas
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it. -- Rick Riordan
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island? -- Cassandra Clare
I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.' -- Tom Hanks
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. -- Jamie Wyeth

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