Ezra Pound Quotes

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
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• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
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• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

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• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • True
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• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
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• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • People

• Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Sea
  • Waves

• Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Growth

• A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.

  

  Lucan

• Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Up

• I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.

  

  Maren Morris

• There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

  

  Anohni
  • People
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  • Attention

• The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

  

  Jane Byrne

• There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  

  John Cage
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,Sat gray-hair’d Saturn, quiet as a stone,Still as the silence round about his lair;Forest on forest hung about his headLike cloud on cloud.

  

  John Keats
  • Star
  • Hair
  • Deep

• They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Good
  • Missing

• I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

  

  David Koresh
  • Message
  • Willing
  • Commander

• The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Money
  • Read
  • Newspaper

• I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Silence