Derek Walcott Quotes

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Man
  • Genesis

• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Good
  • Social Media

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Good
  • Speak
  • Shopping

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• 'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  

  Pietro Mascagni
  • Dangerous
  • Narcotics
  • Modern Music

• The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Artists
  • Advantage
  • Advocates

• The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Heart
  • Lies