Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Joseph Brodsky

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • School
  • Night

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Blood

• I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • She
  • Girl
  • Problem

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Light

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind

• I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... but I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high-it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • High
  • Die

• I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.

  

  Lorelei Linklater
  • Pretty

• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Faith

• I don't know; I guess they'll never make another 'Nemo.' I see they're making another 'Monsters, Inc.' I had a wonderful idea for them. I swear to God, I think there could be a great sequel to 'Nemo' where the fish never will leave home. He just won't leave. 'Getting Rid of Nemo.' Right, 'You're 30 years old! Get out of here!'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • God
  • Home

• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Real
  • Solitude
  • Friendships

• We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Wish

• Maybe when I turned the page it was a new chapter just in life, so why not do the same in music? I think part of life is going out there trying to find something new, experiencing something new yourself.

  

  Jerrod Niemann
  • Life
  • Turned
  • Chapter

• Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Science

• If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• Necessity may be defined in two ways, conformably to the two definitions of cause, of which it makes an essential part. It consists either in the constant conjunction of like objects, or in the inference of the understating from one object to another.

  

  David Hume
  • May

• Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

  

  Joseph Brodsky