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

• There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Expectations
  • Approach
  • Reverence

• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Problem

• I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Season

• 'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

  

  Dave Foley
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • High

• If you look at countries that are comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they have mixed systems. They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have very clear controls over budgeting and accountability.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Accountability
  • Controls
  • Budgeting

• 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