Z Brodsk Quotes & Sayings

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. — Kurt Vonnegut

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time ... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right. — Candida Hofer

The ideas we really live have any value. — Hermann Hesse

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me. — Ace Hood

Countess Bezukhova quite deserved her reputation of being a fascinating woman. She could say what she did not think - especially what was flattering - quite simply and naturally. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance. — Jayne Middlemiss

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man. — Lee Krasner

I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that. — Jack Valenti

When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now. — Henry David Thoreau

Strange are the turns of fortune! Often does hatred hurt itself! — J.R.R. Tolkien

You're not the only one in this relationship who loves a
challenge," he says. "And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip
cookies warm and soft in the middle ... and without magnets glued to them. — Simone Elkeles

She clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: "Take me home to Aunt Em!" Instantly — L. Frank Baum

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief. — Newt Gingrich