Trinidadian Quotes

#1. In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.

Machel Montano

#2. I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

Peter Doig

#3. The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Ismail Merchant

#4. You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

Lisa Vanderpump

#5. Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

Joan D. Chittister

#6. What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Margaret George

#7. Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.
I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

Jim Butcher

#8. By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Adora Svitak

#9. Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks,
in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.

Sukanya Venkatraghavan

#10. There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

Theresa May

#11. After he had lain still there about an hour he heard a low and seemingly very distant sound, but singularly grand and impressive, unlike anything he had ever heard, gradually swelling and increasing as if it would have a universal and memorable ending, a sullen rush and roar.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Martin Gardner