Joseph Brodsky Quotes

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PastBabyBasketballFeelMeaning

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

Andy Cohen

FunFriendsTalkingYourAbout

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Melanie Laurent

MoviesNeverStartedLessonsTheater

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

GoodLearnYouMannersGood Manners

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

Robert Indiana

ChapterFirstComeManyMoby Dick

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

Michael Dell

TodayPowerPeopleYouWantRun

'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.

Simon Hoggart

BusinessServiceDecisionWorldLine

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

CreativityBuildingsPrinciplesWill

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

Marvin Hagler

PeopleMeChampionLookImportant

If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.

Chris Gethard

LifeSadMy LifeSayWhoLike

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Cherie Blair

WomenSupportSocietyStartTools

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

Colson Whitehead

MeVoiceWriteOutFigureTakes

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

William J. Clinton

MeDeepHurtI CanSayMatter

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Joseph Brodsky