Island Life Quotes

I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Aloha

Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.

As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

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

I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.

Eventually, I want to move to Hawaii and chill forever.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.

When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

I'll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I love to be in Hawaii - everything very natural, and my style reflects that.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.