Harold Brodkey Quotes

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

Harold Brodkey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 25, 1930 - January 26, 1996

Topics

LookingRealityInterestingYouGo

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Matthew Simpson

FireManConnectionsAngelsHigher

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Michael Connelly

CommunityNewspaperCenterGoingWeb

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Jeff Bezos

CarDriveDataYouTeachWay

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Tommy Mottola

GoodCreativityEndYouArtistKnow

At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!

Mary Beard

LifeGirlMeEveningYouBad

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Joyce Meyer

LiveDayPeopleWorldEvery DayUs

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Jonathan Sacks

EducationCommunityDayYouthSick

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Brad Goreski

WorkPeopleWantComplimentHimOff

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

ArtMindThinkCreationDestruction

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Antoine Predock

EnvironmentalPlaceUnderstandTry

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'

Winona LaDuke

BlackRealityYouCountryGoLeave

Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.

Peter Heller

DayThinkFeelLossEvery DayGoing

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