Top 435 Quotes & Sayings by Trinidadian Authors - Page 3

People like myself, who have good credibility in the game and played at the very top level, you'd think would get a job or at least be given an interview, but you're not even getting an interview.

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.

But my parents picked Ft. Wayne, which was the best decision because if they had brought me to New York or Philly, I would have swam back to Trinidad!

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

When I say 'rare,' it's my own term. It's like you're doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one has ever seen before. #Rare means that it can only be seen here. It's just a rare moment that I'm sharing with the world.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

It's often been discussed, no-one has really taken it up, but I do have a tendency when I speak to everybody, certainly black players who are trying to break into managerial department are coming up against the same concept because of your race.

I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done to the family and certainly to my mum.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.

We had thousands of people outside Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at six o'clock in the morning.

I want to leave a nice legacy.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

Writing has to support itself.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we'd wild out to, get arrested to.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

I really enjoyed the period in which I played my cricket. I can look back now and wish I started 10 years later and played in the T20s. But I also wish I was born 10 years earlier so that I could have been part of the all-conquering West Indies team of that time.

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Africa has no future.

I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.

I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who you'll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.

I keep a creative group around me.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

As much as with increased exploration new gas reserves can be found, what must be obvious to all is that our oil and gas reserves are not renewable and they are diminishing, and to protect the generations to come, we must engage in nothing short of a radical shift in the diversification of the economy.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

People want sport that they can go on an afternoon and watch with their kids.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang... that's my dude.

I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.

When you have your own place, you set your own rules.