Virgil Quotes

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I think that relationship is intensified because of its remoteness and the long periods of time when there was no interaction with other cultures.

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

Mexico ... with a deep rooted grievance, and an iron curtain at its frontier.

Oh! what a snug little Island, A right little, tight little Island!

An identity to unity produces the empty gestures of cultural nationalism; assimilating unity to identity produces the kind of provincial isolation which is now call separatism ...

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.

I grew up on a tiny island called Guernsey, very small population, very isolated culturally but very beautiful and serene.

I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island nation.

I think it's nice to have New Zealand as a base for me... it's this little island on the bottom of the Earth. It's this nice, quiet place.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.