Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Joseph Brodsky

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• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Reason
  • Person
  • Liking

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Fans
  • Faithful
  • Kindle

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • West
  • Iran

• Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Flowers

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Money
  • War

• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Would

• Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Service
  • Medical

• Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Alone

• I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • Believe
  • True

• I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• Yesterday, we were a weak and small country trampled upon by big powers. Today, our geopolitical location remains the same, but we are transformed into a proud political and military power and an independent people that no one can dare provoke. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Country
  • Friends

• You can do whatever you want with my work.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Work

• I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Life
  • World
  • Design

• My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

  

  John Bardeen
  • Effort

• I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

  

  Elwood G. Norris
  • Radio
  • Colors
  • Wondered

• I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

  

  Joseph Brodsky