Derek Walcott Quotes

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CityMeCitizenHumanAthensPort

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

ProgressDecisionsFenceYouMatter

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

Melissa Etheridge

I AmPoliticalBeingJustFoundWho

The characters I write about are very internal.

Michael Connelly

WriteInternalCharactersVeryAbout

I knew of the Sapeur community for a long time, and they're an important influence for me.

Stromae

CommunityTimeMeInfluenceLong

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Ruth Glick

SafetySmallDownAdmitAirportOut

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

ManPovertyBornWayPoorClassic

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Mary Ellen Mark

RespectBestPeopleThinkBetter

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Mary J. Blige

CompetitionMeTryingYouI CanOut

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Martin Rees

TechnologyInnovationSpacePush

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

Dominic Monaghan

ArtMyselfMeConstantlyExposing

I'm no angel. You can see that. But every time I play, I will play the same way because that's the way I am.

Diego Costa

TimeI AmAngelYouPlayWay

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Claude M. Bristol

BelieveThinkThinkingPersonImage

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