Top 435 Quotes & Sayings by Trinidadian Authors - Page 2

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down.

I remember when we were playing Liverpool away from home and we recorded one shot in the whole match. That's not Man United. You want people go out and express themselves.

I'm kind of brandless. I don't like big logos or whatever.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I'm all about the fans.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

My aim is to bridge Broadway and the R&B world; and to bring all my Broadway experience to the R&B world; and one day, when I go back to Broadway, to bring some R&B to that.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

I want to be a consistent individual. I want to be someone my team can depend on all the time.

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that's where the game is going.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

Every senior player has to play a part and help the skipper by performing their duties on the field and secondly by performing their duties off the field.

You've got to embrace those times as a professional player very seriously, because it will come to an end.

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

I'm very content.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

As a boy, you never really thought of Hall of Fames, you never really thought of records.

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

A guy who is walking out of his crease purposefully because he wants to take advantage is wrong.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, that's the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.

But everything of value about me is in my books.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

I understand demographics.

After cricket I'd love to build a family, I'd love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into something special.