Islanding Quotes

#1. Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

James Joyce

#2. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.

Albert Camus

#3. In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.

Cate Blanchett

#4. For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

Q-Tip

#5. small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better.

Peter Thiel

#6. He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only because he likes it.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#7. Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

Marina And The Diamonds

#8. Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Andrei Sakharov

#9. Why isn't everyone praying all the time? Who cares why everyone isn't praying all the time - you pray all the time.

Art Hochberg

#10. When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.

Roger Federer

#11. Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.

Mark Kurlansky