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

• 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

• 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

• I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

  

  Brett Davern

• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • War
  • Listening

• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Disappointment
  • Landscape

• We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Up
  • World
  • Party

• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Philosophy
  • Intellectual
  • Sight

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

  

  Joseph Brodsky