Derek Walcott Quotes
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
Imran Amed -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle -
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara Jordan -
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
Beau Willimon -
When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar -
I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood -
We shared our father with the world.
Laila Ali
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle -
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler -
L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
Sam Claflin -
All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
Frances Beinecke -
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.
Laura Mvula -
The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
Immanuel Kant
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Malcolm Wilson -
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald Hall -
Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.
Pierre Corneille -
In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.
Derek Walcott