Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGoodBattleBadWayWorse

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Jimmy Page

CharacterDayMeGuitarPersonOut

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

GoodSpeechApplePlayNutShould

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Matthew Desmond

AmericaPovertyResourcesSomething

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Angus Deaton

EducationFatherMotherAgeHistory

David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

Michael Carbonaro

ExperienceThinkCameraMagicFirst

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

Stephen Dillane

YourselfFeelUncomfortableYou

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

StyleNowWillFortyYearsNobility

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

Steven T. Katz

MythSomethingAboutJewFundamental

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

LoveCarFeelYouKnowSilver

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

LP

WorkPoliticsMakeLikeStrokes

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph de Maistre

VisionManResultsPoorEverything

I'd love to play for Spurs and play at White Hart Lane. It won't be easy, and I'll have fight for my place in the team, but I'll work hard to do that.

Dele Alli

WorkLoveFightTeamWork HardPlay

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