"I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style."

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Source : "Interview with Ed Hirsch". "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series", 1986.

Derek Walcott

#Style Quotes #Likes Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.388, Carroll & Graf
“My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.”

Source : "Olympic appetites: how 8 top athletes eat to win" by Michelle Edelbaum, www.eatingwell.com. July 10, 2012.
“The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.”
“I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.”
“In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.”

Source : "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.
“Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.”
“You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.”

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