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Derek Walcott Quotes

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Home Sea Beach Strong My Life

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Mirror You Civilization Know Began

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

Look Back Say Kind Will Presidency

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Trust People Reality Doors Customer

Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France's state broadcasting company runs more than 25 hours of coverage, and the leading drivers and riders are accorded the same status we give to Super Bowl quarterbacks.

Sports Super Bowl More Company Same

I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.

God Time Myself I Am Me Limits

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

Money Me Clothes Fast Comfortable

I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

Love Teeth Get Shakespeare

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

Business Service Back Years Planned

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

Day Trees Internet Doing Ice Earth

I'm actually really good at Balderdash, and no one wants to play that game with me. Especially the movies category; I don't want to give away my secrets, but I am pretty good at that category.

Good I Am Me Game Secrets Play

I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.

Home Bible Phone Without Leave

I think more than anything, you should do what you love. If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

Love Do What You Love Writing Think

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