Derek Walcott Quotes

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Melissa Auf der Maur

DreamsTruthWorldRealityEnough

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Melissa Bean

BestDataInformationSecurityEven

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Robert Smith

EyesMeSongEndSometimesOpen

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

John Sculley

QualityEarlyOverHighDaysMobile

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Alton Brown

TimeFoodCollegeSmallSmall Town

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

Tom Daley

ConfidenceGreatConsistencyChampion

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

Ruth Ozeki

EdgeMoreAlwaysLineFictionFilm

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Mary Douglas

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On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Jay Inslee

BeautifulEarthSystemDrivenStill

No matter how the day's going, when I get out there on that stage, it makes it all all right.

Cole Swindell

DayMatterRightStageOutGoing

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Brian Behlendorf

ThinkGoodnessInsideUsBeenMost

If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

Britt Robertson

I AmI CanPlayAm

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