Derek Walcott Quotes

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

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• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Black
  • Green

• I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Questions
  • Personal

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Growing
  • Doing
  • Disability

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Boxing

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Age
  • Black
  • Religious

• I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Girl

• My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Different
  • Serious

• Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Serious