Joseph Brodsky Quotes

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Joseph Brodsky

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• These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • May
  • Success

• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Myself

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Game
  • Goal
  • End

• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Job
  • You
  • Show

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Reading

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Minutes

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Mind
  • Why

• In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Life
  • Men
  • School

• You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Life