Derek Walcott Quotes

There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

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• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Religion
  • Lies
  • Human

• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Hurts

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Teacher

• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Awesome

• A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Society
  • Royal
  • Goose

• Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

  

  Laura Marano
  • World
  • Kids
  • Power

• If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • She
  • Him
  • Clothing

• With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • You
  • Hair
  • See

• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Politics
  • Involved

• You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Old

• What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Purpose

• I will remain on the throne until I fall off!

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Fall

• 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

• Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Famous
  • Friendship

• If in the coming days the situation does not change, we need to take additional extraordinary measures, including at the highest level

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Days

• I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • Work
  • Done

• All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Son
  • Birthday
  • Chocolate

• It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Living
  • Because
  • Whatever

• There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.

  

  Derek Walcott