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Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Thinking Universe Conscience

Pack lightly. If I'm anywhere a week or less, I carry on. I can fit everything I need in one small bag! And I pack small, mini liquids so TSA doesn't make me throw anything out.

Jessie James Decker

Me Small Bag Week I Can Need

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

Jeremy Paxman

People Ownership Television Tax Why

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

Jenifer Lewis

Someone Doing Looks Know She Diva

I've endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I've visited and lived in. Available taxis - as indicated by their roof lights - locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they've just ignored my hail altogether.

Jenna Wortham

Doors Trying Lights Roof Lived Get

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

Robert Stromberg

Snow Teacher Art School Artist Done

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Andy Kaufman

World Believe Camera Television Wall

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

Michael Chiklis

Life Women Think My Life Moments

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Steve Guttenberg

Friend Chance Meetings Friends You

Hopefully I won't be the last big splash at Under Armour.

Stephen Curry

Big Splash Last Hopefully Armour

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Stephan Jenkins

Music Day People You Look Down

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

Michael Specter

Health World Data DNA More Within

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Jonathan Sacks

Fear Live Faith Day People Free