A Quote by Joseph Brodsky
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.
It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It’s not even what’s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it’s what’s in your heart.
Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally even deranging.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.
I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~
A day on a film set is maddening.
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'
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