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
  • Literature

• 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

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• 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

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• 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

• I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • Movie

• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  

  William McNamara
  • World
  • Reality
  • Lying

• Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Simple
  • Working
  • Terrible

• In lots of ways. I mean, it's remained the same in the sense that I'm still doing what I've always done, which is play guitar with that kind of outlook - harmony guitar and heavy guitar; I didn't have to change my writing style or anything, so things like that have remained the same, fortunately, 'cause that's who I am as a guitar player. Other things have changed immensely. I mean, I'm never in the same place for more than a month or so, 'cause we've always got promotion to do, or some recording to do, or some writing to do. . . whatever it is, there's always something going on every few months. So I've become a bit of a heavy metal vagabond, really. I think I'm young enough to do that still and I don't have to settle down here too much. And just being a part of PRIEST, because you're going everywhere and you're so learning so much about the industry outside of playing guitar, and I welcome the challenge.

  

  Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
  • Challenge
  • Guitarist
  • Heavy-Metal

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

  

  Joseph Brodsky