Ezra Pound Quotes

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Problem
  • Mum

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Ifs
  • Talk

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Kitchen

• I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Women
  • Argument
  • Suffrage

• It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Inspired
  • Mine
  • Juice

• When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Want
  • Belt

• And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew

• Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

  

  Brendan Fraser
  • She
  • Together
  • Fun

• I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Thank You

• And that impulse to make the world better, to push back on those who try to make it worse, that’s something that your generation has to hold on to. And you have to remember, it’s never easy; there are no days off. But if there’s one thing that I know from my own life, it’s that with hard work and with hope, change is always within our reach.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.

  

  John McCain
  • Believe

• We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Work
  • Band

• The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Creation