At age 10 or 12 he`s going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
- Jeremy IronsI`d love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom`s a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
- John Rhys-DaviesI vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
- Barry SheeneThere should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
- Andrew MoranI`ll trust you to hold (my daughter`s) Sweet Fifteen for me and walk her down the isle (sic) for me someday on her wedding day. That`s all I`ll ask of you bro, I`ve always been a burden to you ... I`ll trouble you no more after this ...
- Barrett KaiserThis royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
- William Shakespeare