Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BookSameWriterBurning

In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.

John Coltrane

EffortBetterFeelFindSituation

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

Jennifer Aniston

JobBlameSomeoneNot KnowingYou

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Michael Arrington

FinancialSometimesInterestKeep

To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist thinkers in berets and Catherine Deneuve in nothing at all - French was the language of intellectual power and effortless sex appeal.

Michael Dirda

PowerLanguageSexIntellectualBoy

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

Amy Chua

ChildrenControlThoughtYoungCocky

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks

WarColdEndAbandonedCold War

I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.

Mike Mignola

GreatSchoolThinkBrideBetterYou

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Jason Isbell

FamilyHeritageFocusedMuscleVery

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

Jose Ferreira

GreatServiceValueBetterYouNew

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

Dominic West

LifeAmericanYouNextYearsAway

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Christian Nestell Bovee

VirtueWheatDoesPurifyAffliction

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

Bret Hart

ThoughtHelpHandsUpMightTaken

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