Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Never
  • Boxing

• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Time
  • School
  • History

• You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Morning

• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Hurt

• I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Always

• Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Experience

• May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Help

• The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Understanding
  • Road
  • Training

• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Long
  • English

• Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Each

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Career
  • Safety

• If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

  

  George Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Financial

• If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Heart
  • Secret
  • Safe

• I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

  

  George Clooney
  • Personality
  • Trouble
  • Limitation

• Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

  

  Vanity

• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Book
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

  

  Joseph Brodsky