Derek Walcott Quotes

Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Die

• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Legacy
  • Him

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Done
  • Die

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• The Tippoo still led the fight. ... Those gaudy stones made him a target for every redcoat and sepoy, yet he insisted on staying in the very front rank where he could pour his rifle fire at the stalled attackers, and his charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the Tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Die
  • Fire
  • Tiger

• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Alike
  • Monkey
  • Derived

• On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Respect

• In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Good
  • Question
  • Picture

• Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Die