Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

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• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • True
  • Success
  • Promise

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Women
  • Easy
  • Self

• We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Work
  • Green
  • Security

• Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Attention
  • More
  • Skin

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long

• I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire

• Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Revolution

• I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Words

• I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.

  

  Brian Lee
  • Up

• You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Party

• One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Hope

• We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Business

• Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto the floor. And laughed. "Let's do that again! But this time I'll jump even higher." "No! No,you won't! What are you going here?" He sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I was bored." "I don't care! I'm not your babysitter!" His blue eyes twinkled.Honestly, whose eyes actually twinkle? Then his face crumpled,his lower lip jutting out.He blinked his ridiculously long eyelashes at me. "I thought we were friends." "Oh,knock it off.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Care

• I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Why
  • Style

• I think it's important that we do it defeat ISIS in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Europe
  • Nations
  • Middle East

• Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

  

  Joseph Brodsky