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Derek Walcott Quotes

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Sugar Over Abandoned Ruins

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Jim Doyle

Government I Am People Budget Try

When I show up in New York, and I look at the skyline, it's like showing up in a mountain range. My gaze goes toward the most impressive-looking climb. It's always gone to the top of the World Trade Center.

Jimmy Chin

Mountain New York Climb World Look

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Monica Cruz

Control Motherhood Way Own Watch

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Moby

Music Know Without Pretty Exist

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

Jonathan Groff

School Me Feel Bag You Find

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

Chris Geere

School Design Choice Down Drama Go

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

Courage Moral Virtue Than Higher

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

Paul Westerberg

Great Think Movies Rock Lot

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins

World Thirty Human Human Being Force

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

Ken Goldberg

Value Back Renaissance Leisure Date

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

Kristin Davis

People Connected Dogs Pleasant Very

Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

End Violence Discrimination Find