Joseph Brodsky Quotes

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Joseph Brodsky

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Look
  • Appearance

• L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Band
  • Feel

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Deep

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Live
  • Earth

• In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Peace
  • Create
  • Prosper

• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Small
  • Nothing
  • Income

• I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Organization
  • Anti-Semitic

• ..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..

  

  Otto Dix
  • Fun

• I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Son

• I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum.

  

  George Galloway
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

  

  William Tyndale
  • People
  • Desire
  • Christian

• The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Environment

• Putting a face on a gay is important. We are just people.

  

  Del Shores
  • People
  • Important
  • Gay

• 'In a society where many women are finding it difficult to have husbands of their own due to depletion of men by many factors, homosexuality will exacerbate the disequilibrium, leading to much social unrest.'

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

  

  Joseph Brodsky