Ezra Pound Quotes

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

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• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Press

• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Internet
  • Press
  • Mouth

• E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • You
  • Press
  • Button

• I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Press
  • Envious

• Press the any key ... hmmm where's the any key?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Key
  • Press

• We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Bad
  • Hate
  • Band

• We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.

  

  Frank Hague
  • Free
  • Rights
  • Speech

• The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Friend
  • Acknowledge

• Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Friends
  • Design
  • Evolution

• I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Friends
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• Obviously he's a lot better on clay, so I tried to press his forehand and make points on my terms instead of his.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Press
  • Tried
  • Terms

• Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Trust
  • Press
  • Labors

• You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Mistake
  • Press

• I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Press
  • Onstage

• God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • God
  • Brilliant
  • Press

• The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Press
  • Affections

• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Logic
  • Plain
  • Theorists

• I don't discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me, I don't respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don't need to talk about.

  

  Al B. Sure!
  • Family
  • Press
  • Discuss

• It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.

  

  David M. Kreps
  • Model
  • Fact
  • Conclusion

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• It was like giving a glass of brandy neat to someone who had never been weaned from a milk diet.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Diet
  • Brandy
  • Weaned

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Press
  • Blinded
  • Theorists