Island Line

Island Line can refer to:

  • Island Line (MTR), one of the ten lines of the MTR metro system in Hong Kong
  • Island Line, Isle of Wight, a railway line on the Isle of Wight, England
  • Island Line Trains, a train operating company in the United Kingdom

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or line:

    “When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “One line typed twenty years ago
    can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
    to glorify art as detachment
    or torture of those we
    did not love but also
    did not want to kill.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)