Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

Joseph Brodsky

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• I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Everyone

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Movies

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Peace
  • Loved
  • Beer

• I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Act

• My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Childhood

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Confident
  • Athletes

• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  

  Lane Evans
  • World
  • Live
  • Brave

• India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Team
  • Positive

• 'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Forest

• Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mirror

• I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.

  

  Andrea Hirata

• As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Believe

• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good

• I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Suppose
  • Volatile

• And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Light
  • Change
  • Rain

• A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

  

  Joseph Brodsky