Ezra Pound Quotes

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

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• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Know
  • Now

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • World
  • Government

• Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Body

• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Free
  • Child
  • Down

• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Models
  • Bunch

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Wrong
  • Often
  • Department

• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Gold
  • Place
  • Express

• I am a babe for a living.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Living
  • Babe

• There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Leaving
  • Crime
  • Chip In Time

• GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS A SECRET. THE FASTER I TWIRL, THE MORE I AM STILL INSIDE. MY DANCE IS ALL MOTION WITHOUT, ALL SILENCE WITHIN. AS MUCH AS I LOVE TO MAKE MUSIC, IT'S THE UNHEARD MUSIC THAT NEVER DIES. AND SILENCE IS MY REAL DANCE, THOUGH IT NEVER MOVES. IT STANDS ASIDE, MY CHOREOGRAPHER OF GRACE, AND BLESSES EACH FINGER AND TOE.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dance
  • Balance
  • Head

• If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

  

  A. C. Green Jr.
  • Control
  • Period

• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Balance
  • Values
  • Civilization