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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996

Topics

Honor Country Glory Will Bring Poet

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Father Teacher Woman School Me Name

Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Time Practice Deep Design You

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Believe Comedy Doing You Drama More

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Good People Rock And Roll Kind Rock

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

Maximilian Schell

Fun Have Fun Black Example Hole Did

I'm so glad I didn't go into the big-music industry until I was 19 or 20.

Go Industry Glad Until

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

Parents People Sister Road Loved

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Children Parents Wrong Way Should

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

Work Love Great Dream Say Actor

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Good Good Old Days Nostalgia Old

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

Christina Baker Kline

Book Reading Person Become Books

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Murray Gell-Mann

History Universe Individuality Old

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