Joseph Brodsky Quotes

When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HelpHumanityYouDoneUnderstand

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Jessica Jackley

MoneyPeopleLookingMotivationWay

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy.

Jenson Button

LifeGoodFlyingDrivingFastYoung

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

WorkGreatPeopleMeThinkingDie

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.

Johnny Christ

MindSayingTryingLookNowBedroom

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

MarriageWeatherWindConnection

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Roger Goodell

LearningMotherTimeMyselfSchool

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.

Josie Maran

CarFastPrettySays

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

Jordan Rodgers

RelationshipGreatBrotherPeopleMe

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

Diane Warren

LoveMusicGreatLove IsWorldSong

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

Dick York

GodThank GodDoingWallSheOut

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Donny Robinson

LifeJourneyTodayI AmMeBelieve

I have been snowboarding since I was seven years old.

Dove Cameron

SnowboardingOldYearsBeenSeven

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