Harold Brodkey Quotes

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

Harold Brodkey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

Jessie Mueller

WomanSayingLovedYouKnowWhy

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

Joan Collins

BeautyWellBooksFourWritten

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

Meg White

BetterWantKindBoringWouldMaybe

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

Amy Jackson

PeopleStand UpSpeakStandThree

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanley Crouch

LoveTogetherPeopleStoryBlack

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud

OppositionMadeOccasionMisused

I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.

Tony Rock

CompetitionThinkHouseTwoAnything

I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

Robin Leach

RainSunHouseDreamDownPlace

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.

Mike Gallagher

TeacherSchoolProcessLawyersWant

Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Misty Copeland

BeautifulBe StrongSupportPeople

I'm not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I'm capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa - I'm just trapped in a big, dumb body.

Jason Momoa

MotherBodyDumbPlayTrappedBig

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

Jon Evans

TogetherInternetDifferencesBring

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