Derek Walcott Quotes

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MotherBrotherMeSaidSheWriter

Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.

Jim James

LiveMusicEyesExperienceDayEnd

I have not yet begun to fight!

John Paul Jones

FightWarBegun

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

John Thune

WisdomResponsibilityGovernment

Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Ronald Coase

BusinessSomeoneLongYouWhyAct

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Mary Tyler Moore

WayTurnOutSomeDidCharacters

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

Mathieu Amalric

JobYouPlaceDoneSameAlways

I love nuts and popcorn with olive oil and sea salt.

Mary Helen Bowers

LoveSeaSaltPopcornOilNuts

Everything is educational.

Jaylen Brown

EverythingEducational

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

Johnny Van Zant

TimeWaterKingGlassHimOut

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

Delia Smith

CookingAlwaysRiceWeightRather

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

Cherie Blair

MotherLiveChildrenBestJobMe

In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.

Brad Thor

DeathBetterYouSayKnifeNever

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