Desperation Island Quotes & Sayings

Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane — D.J. MacHale

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. — Desmond Tutu

As gold is an element in itself and can never change nor compromise but is gold wherever it is found, so God is God, always, only, fully God, and can never be other than He is. — A.W. Tozer

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence. — Julian Barnes

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. — Pablo Casals

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun
But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done. — Douglas Malloch

It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat. — Austin O'Malley

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius. — Bob Dylan

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider. — Dan Fogler

...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor. — Rebecca West

The wielder of words is the captor of souls. — Christopher K. Stone

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me. — Brad Furman

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one. — Juliana Berners

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war. — James Carroll

The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe. — Lawrence Korb