Derek Walcott Quotes

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautyHistorySurpriseLandscape

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Jesse Helms

EducationMoneySupportPeopleTake

To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.

Jerry Hall

LifeLoveMenMeWorldEnd

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Jennifer Capriati

LifePastFeelMy LifeNewChapter

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

John Moody

ShipRailroadSteamOriginally

There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.

Jeff Nichols

WorkEyesBestBelieveThinkBetter

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

Michael Bacon

PeopleWritingSongRichThinkYou

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

Steven Yeun

LoveStrengthBestPeopleBasketball

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PowerMomentDeathSurviveSurvival

Of all the people that I got a chance to meet as I was growing up, probably one of the most famous was Eddie Peabody. I saw him live in person when I was just a child, and that excited me to want to learn more.

Roy Clark

LiveChildPeopleMeGrowing Up

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.

Millie Bobby Brown

DayJobSchoolFunMeHaving Fun

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

Jasper Johns

LifeWorkExperienceDifferences

We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

Jon Anderson

BeautifulExperienceEgoYouPlace

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