“That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.” YearsStillsWholeGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkTwentiesGreat ThingsIslandsPlusBeing There Author:Steven Strait
“We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.” StillsFightingAuthorityBuiltAdvantageLocalsBridgesIslandsDestructiveTerritoryDisorderCompetingArbitrary Author:Vladimir Putin
“A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'” IfsStillsBeautifulFilmComputerMessagesDesertIslandsSeagullOld MovieJonathan Livingston SeagullLivingston Seagull Author:Bertrand Piccard
“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.” IfsStillsPastLyingSpeakImpossiblePaintTalesIslandsParadiseScoreLiarsCoastFabulousExaggerationSpeak The TruthRaphaelVexBohemia Author:James Branch Cabell