1000 Islands Quotes & Sayings

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something. — Dean Smith

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice. — Cheryl Strayed

Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself. — William Francis Henry King

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s. — Christophe Honore

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn't start with race; I wouldn't start with blackness; I wouldn't start with gender; I wouldn't start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I'm a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love. — Bell Hooks

Midville's best street was High Street. It was up on a hill. Not much of a hill, to tell the truth, but in that part of the state, the flat south-central part, hills are not taken for granted. — Natalie Babbitt

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. — Jessica Savitch

A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious. — Kelly Stables

Christ, she was the most difficult woman he had ever tried to seduce. And the only one who really mattered. — Nina Croft

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It's absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It's the gimmick of money. — Henri Cartier-Bresson