Joseph Brodsky Quotes

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

Joseph Brodsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthMeFashionEgoFeelYou

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

PeopleVirtueMoreOutViceThan

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

John Oates

BusinessMusicArtistAbyssFoot

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

GriefWordsDeepestFewest

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

Maurice Sendak

YouKnowingMeanWithoutThings

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

TimeChildhoodVacationRelaxHim

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Ambrose Bierce

ManSpeakYouFindHimHe

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Simon Hoggart

GodCommunityChildrenJobWife

I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.

Chris Lowell

TimeSchoolMeHigh SchoolFriends

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

David Slade

MistakeThinkYouPlaceTryFirst

I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.

Ari Graynor

BeachMeBabyFakeLovedYou

English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.

Armaan Malik

LoveMusicGreatTogetherWorld

I will never wear something I'm not comfortable in, and if I do, you'll see it in my face, and it'll be a complete faux pas.

Alia Bhatt

FaceYouComfortableWillNeverSee

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