Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.

Joe Miller

GoodOpportunityPowerGovernment

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

John Barth

DecisionYouGetTrialCertain

The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

Andrew Breitbart

SuccessExperienceWorldMoreUrban

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

OpportunityAloneTimeDaySpiritual

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

Tom Catena

WorkEngineeringMechanicalMuch

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

Jay-Z

MoneyJobPeopleCoolFaceThink

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

Dennis Quaid

PeopleLuckBlessedDoingKnowOut

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

Drew Barrymore

LifeFamilyEnjoyDownOutSystem

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

GreatWillAlwaysLineForceFine

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.

Sheryl Swoopes

LoveHelpFallWho

It's important to believe in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, then no one else can believe in you.

Shanice Williams

Believe In YourselfYourselfBelieve

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Nikita Khrushchev

ChiefWeaponPressOurIdeological

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