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
  • Moving

• If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story than just skating laps and who's winning a gold medal.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Person
  • Press
  • Public Relations

• 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 enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • America
  • Peace
  • Chance

• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Influence
  • Changes
  • Harmony

• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Children
  • Power
  • Education

• The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Earth
  • Average movie
  • Political arena

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

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Press
  • Blinded
  • Theorists