"What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?"

-- Wyndham Lewis

#Islands Quotes

“If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.”
“In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.”

Source : "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2003.
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
“I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.”
“I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.”

Source : "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of oneâ€™s own destruction, has become a â€œbiologicalâ€ need.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1969). “An Essay on Liberation”, Boston : Beacon Press

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