Derek Walcott Quotes

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

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• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Effort
  • Creative
  • Inequality

• Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Pigs

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Library
  • Stand
  • Brick

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Time
  • Money
  • Communist

• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Best
  • Genius

• The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Family
  • Happiness

• That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Law
  • Grandmother
  • Fame

• The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Two
  • Role
  • Role Models

• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Always
  • Said
  • Now

• I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • You
  • Freedom

• A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade'N' says something like, 'You and me babe, how about it?'

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Song
  • Light

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Words

• I'm going to name my daughter Emily.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Daughter

• However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Book
  • Style

• Then you notice likkle carpet burnMy stomach drop and my guts churnYou shrug and it's the worstWho truly stuck the knife in first?I cheated myself like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no goodI cheated myself, like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Good

• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • Up
  • Different

• It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Impossible
  • Possible

• Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

  

  Derek Walcott