Derek Walcott Quotes

I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Andrew Heyward

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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.

Andie MacDowell

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I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.

Jeff Ament

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I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Jeff Foxworthy

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If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

Steve Southerland

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Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Roger Sherman

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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Mary Astell

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Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

Joseph McCabe

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There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

Clive Davis

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The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

Bobby Sands

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I think politics come out of psychology.

Bruce Springsteen

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And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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