Derek Walcott Quotes

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

Derek Walcott

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Business
  • You
  • Trust

• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Money
  • Personal
  • Manners

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Problem
  • Champagne
  • Both

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Live
  • Learn

• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
  • Fashion

• I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Words
  • Day
  • End

• English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Party

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Time
  • Start
  • Season

• I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

  

  E. L. James
  • People
  • Happy
  • Reading

• We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Dying
  • Sick

• When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art

• Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Power
  • Hope
  • Joy

• Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.

  

  Brother Dave Gardner
  • Want
  • Any
  • None

• A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Patience