Brodsky Organization Quotes & Sayings

Censure no more shall brand my humble name
The child of passion and the fool of fame — George Gordon Byron

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.' — Ashley Jensen

I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread- and-butter-offering, yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight. — P.G. Wodehouse

I thought I would be a guy on the radio. — Steven Wright

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite. — Joseph Brodsky

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck. — Joan Leslie