I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.


Joseph Brodsky

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

All I know is that the coaches said we're wearing yellow. Sometimes we wear yellow uniforms for big ...
WILL BLALOCK
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked lik...
SAFRA A. CATZ
I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
FLORENTIJN HOFMAN
I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a to...
DREW SIDORA
Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.
LARRY MCMURTRY
I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappo...
KATE O'MARA
I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
PARIS HILTON
When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER
It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet and coul...
BRYAN ANDERSON
When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the d...
JOSEPH WAPNER
Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a v...
CAM
It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER
A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm alway...
ASHLEY BENSON
I hope that I dress for my age. Because there's no need to be dowdy, is there? But I don't g...
MARY BERRY
I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
RAIN
My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory se...
AARON CIECHANOVER
I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always ...
MARCIA CLARK
I thought I heard 'green. My earpieces weren't completely clear all day. What I thought was a 'green...
DANICA PATRICK
Someone asked me the other day if I was going to wear a yellow dress.
SHERYL CROW
I've been looking for the yellow brick road and I can't find it.
JO FROST
I felt you before I knew of your existence, maybe it was a hint from the universe to continue on the...
NIKKI ROWE
Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL
You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW
I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the...
FRANCIA RAISA
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was ...
MAE WHITMAN
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn&#...
J. MILTON HAYES
I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
HARVEY BALL
Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER)
I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and ...
TOVE LO
We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO
I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I wa...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk...
AVRIL LAVIGNE
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing o...
CARA DELEVINGNE
I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless yo...
IMELDA MAY
There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on no...
DAMIAN WOETZEL
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody...
EARTHA KITT
Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
CAM
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w...
GREGG ALLMAN
It was a normal collision, I went for the ball and even a yellow card is too much.
MIDO
No, I still have that yellow stripe on. You have got to wait to take that off.
KYLE BUSCH
I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and t...
CHERYL JAMES
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come...
ATTICUS SHAFFER
I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But wi...
GARRY MARSHALL
I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainb...
CHRIS KATTAN
Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and oran...
MIKE JUDGE
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON
Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of ...
JOHN MOTSON
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
JIM HIGHTOWER
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collect...
JONNY WILKINSON
I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
PARIS HILTON
Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they...
NICOLAS CAGE
I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putt...
EMUN ELLIOTT
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not ...
EARTHA KITT
Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear ...
JACKEE HARRY
One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing ma...
BLAKE LIVELY
I couldn't believe it. Just before the national anthem was played, I heard our chant. I could see th...
JIM LARRANAGA
Days and nights have changed my face. And I have buried my mother on a cold day in May when yellow-t...
JUSTIN TUSSING
I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that&#...
JOHN LEGEND
I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by ...
BLAKE LIVELY
The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershe...
JAKE EPSTEIN
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER
I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lo...
DIANA RIGG
I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't ...
BOB SEGER
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Gr...
MITCH HEDBERG
I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?&...
SIRENA HUANG
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch...
TATYANA ALI
I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
PAMELA ANDERSON
I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock o...
JAMIE FOXX
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages an...
JOAN RIVERS
I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supp...
KAREN ABBOTT
I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at t...
TED DANSON
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
SARAH DESSEN
I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's '...
COLMAN DOMINGO
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...
HOWARD JACOBSON
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th a...
AARON NEVILLE
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearin...
LINUS TORVALDS
When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a ...
BRUCE HORNSBY
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taugh...
STEPHEN J. CANNELL
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she...
WILL.I.AM
A Blue Dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing...
MIKE THOMPSON
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY
Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS
I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically li...
LARRY HAGMAN
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, lookin...
JOHNNY DEPP
I could have screamed, but I didn't. I could have fought, but I didn't. I just lay there and let it ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to p...
CHARLES MINGUS
When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the ...
JERRY SEINFELD
I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our da...
KURT ELLING
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ...
ROWAN ATKINSON
All I can remember is sitting on the bench in a cold rain. All year long. Every day, it was raining....
JUSTIN VERLANDER
One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of peo...
HODA KOTB
But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physica...
AMANDA BURTON
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
GROUCHO MARX
As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the r...
TRISH STRATUS
I had to back off on one lap near the end because of yellow flags, but that happened while we were o...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'...
HOLLY HUNTER

More Joseph Brodsky

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no o...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you l...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the kno...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pang...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Bad literature is a form of treason.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic dicti...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with th...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigu...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your lif...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center c...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Venice is eternity itself.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Man is what he reads.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of t...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrosp...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideologica...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are p...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot -...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more m...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political p...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impres...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul w...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two s...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
JOSEPH BRODSKY
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your lif...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things un...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
If there is any substitute for love, it is memory
JOSEPH BRODSKY
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their a...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, eve...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down t...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history make...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at tim...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Bo...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth....
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Повезло и тебе: где еще, кроме разве что фотографии,
...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
[Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY
The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY
The offensive line and defensive line are coming together well. We're working very hard and we're al...
CHUCK BRODSKY
My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a trouba...
CHUCK BRODSKY
It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
CHUCK BRODSKY
We realize it's going to be even harder to win because everyone out there wants to beat us. The way ...
CHUCK BRODSKY
Brothers in 'Pike' cover all ranges of the spectrum, from a militant Republican Texan to a Jewish De...
ALEX BRODSKY
I'd trust that Bush has a lot more experience around kegs than Kerry.
ALEX BRODSKY
The system is broke. Cases like this make the Correctional Service of Canada look really terrible.
DANIEL BRODSKY
That's the real shame. Society is not well-served by sending a convict to a penitentiary who needs m...
DANIEL BRODSKY
We're pleased that consumers will have the benefit of devices that will work well in the IP environm...
ART BRODSKY
I?d be less than honest if I told you there was a great deal of sympathy for the net neutrality idea...
ART BRODSKY
It is a very fluid situation. In fact even as we speak, in the next day or so, there should be some ...
ART BRODSKY
Nobody on our side liked (the new version). It was basically a rewrite of the old draft. It's obviou...
ART BRODSKY
People are really stirred up about this,
ART BRODSKY
We are willing to work with the Hill on these issues, but we of course have serious reservations abo...
ART BRODSKY
He doesn't care about himself. He was prepared to die in that hospital room. When they took the knif...
GREG BRODSKY
Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in...
DANIEL BRODSKY
We're not at the drafting stage. I think we're moving toward the conceptual stage of what we need to...
RICHARD BRODSKY
There's no adequate treatment for him (at such a facility). That's just a jail disguised as a hospit...
DANIEL BRODSKY
We are each others angels, we meet when it is time
CHUCK BRODSKY
He has almost no shot of getting out of a psychiatric hospital.
DANIEL BRODSKY
They should be outlawed. They should do good police work, convict people on the basis of physical ev...
GREG BRODSKY
This was not a life for him, this was not a life for her.
GREG BRODSKY
We are delighted at the continued strong endorsement of TRIB by the members of ACTN. Since we have a...
HARVEY BRODSKY
There's not a single major new truck tire manufacturer that would bring a tire to the market that is...
HARVEY BRODSKY
I think adding Common Short Codes to print advertising is the best option. A user just has to send a...
IRA BRODSKY
Companies need to look at the MVNO market as a long-term commitment and not expect a positive cash f...
IRA BRODSKY
One of the areas where I see a lot of activity is in-building wireless coverage.
IRA BRODSKY
We have evidence of compensation to top management when, as far as I know, firemen and police of the...
RICHARD BRODSKY
If you look at all the exchanges that had started down the demutualization path ... the IPO is not t...
WILLIAM BRODSKY
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX
Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH
I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH
I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX
There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON
A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH
ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH
I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH