Derek Walcott Quotes

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

Sri Chinmoy

LifeLoveLivePeopleMindEmotions

I've run 1,000 miles in Baja, and that's pretty much nonstop.

Robby Gordon

RunMilesPrettyMuchNonstop

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

Michel Hazanavicius

MyselfThinkImportantDirectorJust

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

Lucas Papademos

ProblemsThinkFactsHelpReveal

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

Joni Ernst

GoodShoesSchoolMomGrowing Up

Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

Janine Turner

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The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

EqualityUnityWorldRestRevolution

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood

MarriageHappyLearnWayGetAgain

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

Bob Mayer

MeInternetI CanDistanceRespond

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

Ashton Kutcher

FunnyThinkLearnComedyPersonHad

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

Alice McDermott

CharacterEyesServiceYourselfYou

The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

Pete Gallego

ExpectationsMeetIronyStandards

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