Ezra Pound Quotes

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Seems
  • Motion

• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Big

• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Mean
  • Scary
  • Horror

• I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mean
  • Latin
  • Mexican

• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • True
  • Dream
  • Mean

• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • College
  • Mean
  • Moving

• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Movie

• Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Mean
  • Leadership

• I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Office

• Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Mean
  • Weakness

• Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Time
  • Motion
  • Abstraction

• If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

  

  Ian Blair
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Police

• I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.

  

  Fabio Gatti
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Mean

• Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Mean
  • Growth
  • Waste

• And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Art
  • Night
  • Mean

• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Different
  • Home
  • House

• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Men
  • America
  • Political

• I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Lying

• I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can't be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Sacrifice

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Career
  • Struggle

• People I can trust, people who have the same idea that I have about paying their way and having a bit of fun and the sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • People
  • Way
  • Trust

• I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Mean
  • Motion
  • Signify