Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Design

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Family
  • You
  • Years

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • She
  • Support

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Childhood

• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Health

• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Philosophy
  • Subject
  • Less

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • World
  • Career

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heroes

• I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Men
  • Movie
  • Career

• We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Game
  • Football
  • Basketball

• At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Stage
  • Audiences
  • Rewarding

• The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • House

• I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Prayer

• A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Happiness

• A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

  

  Joseph Brodsky