Derek Walcott Quotes

The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

Derek Walcott

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Winter
  • Autumn
  • Brainy

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Up
  • Working Class

• Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Different
  • Like
  • Drunk

• We live in a society where everything's packaged.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Live
  • Society
  • Everything

• I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Comfortable

• In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Looking Forward

• For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Desire
  • Problem
  • Waiting

• White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street:Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Death
  • Paris

• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.)

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Drunk
  • Islamic

• Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • City
  • Diversity

• It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Truth
  • Tea

• Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Intelligent
  • Thoughtful

• Everyone says to hydrate on the plane, but I don't.

  

  Emily Weiss

• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fear

• I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • Great

• My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • World
  • War
  • Help

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Experience

• In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Air

• The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

  

  Derek Walcott