Derek Walcott Quotes

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

Jerry Lawler

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The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Max Lerner

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We are losing our environment so rapidly.

Stefanie Powers

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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mikhail Bakunin

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When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people.

Mohammad Azharuddin

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Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

Mindy Kaling

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I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.

Louis Theroux

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I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

Phyllis Schlafly

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I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Richard P. Feynman

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The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.

Nigel Barker

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