Joseph Brodsky Quotes

Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWaterCityBuildingConquered

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

Jeffrey Eugenides

JobThinkBadWonderEconomyTurn

Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.

Jeff Fortenberry

RightReligiousMinoritiesChristians

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

John Sergeant Wise

HistoryPatriotismGovernmentYear

I've always been a conservative first.

Steve Scalise

ConservativeFirstAlwaysBeen

If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'

Mike Yaconelli

TodayHappyPeopleBe HappyDieBad

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

Judith Krantz

GreatCreativeFunWritingStart

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Christopher Walken

ActorOutMissThrowRatherSome

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

Cher

LifeManMy LifePersonOrder

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

Arthur Ganson

MovingFeelingFindKindMatter

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Arthur Laffer

WorkExperienceMeTaxWillEconomy

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

HappinessMoneyHumanConcreteWho

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Alfred Marshall

LawRestWealthRightsIndividual

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