Derek Walcott Quotes

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: January 23, 1930

Topics

ImaginationLanguageNobodySpecial

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

Jerry Harrison

WorkMeWritingVoiceThinkOut

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

Trey Songz

SoulRadioBeingMinuteRecordsPer

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

Tommy Lee

ChildrenYouSometimesOpposites

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

Ron D. Burton

LeadershipOpportunityTrainingLearn

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

Ron Jaworski

LoveBestFootballMindRightSee

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

Mike Tice

GreatFootballTeethLuckyCoach

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Michael Stipe

JustSexualHomosexual

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

CoolJustHippopotamusReally

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

Bryan Clay

MyselfGoldWinMotivationLongNew

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

Arthur Rimbaud

DamnGiveIntact

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

George Murray

New YorkThoughtsNewConcentration

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

Chandra Wilson

TimeSchoolCollegeMeWinStudent

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