Ezra Pound Quotes

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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• Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Growth

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Real
  • You
  • Day

• Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Marriage
  • Equal

• I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Try
  • Face
  • Dress

• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Learn
  • Alive

• People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • School
  • Tools

• What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• 'I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words. '

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Words

• I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Up
  • Live

• People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Up

• I hate small talk! I can't do it.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Small
  • Hate

• 'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Amazing
  • Jesus

• There is a secret hippie within me.

  

  Phillip Lim
  • Hippie

• We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Family

• I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I'm breathing, that's a prayer for my sons' safety.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Safety

• Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.

  

  Marion Jones

• Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Changing
  • Performing
  • Drag

• I think what makes the difference for me is the preparation of the course making it so icy, which suits me. Thanks for that.

  

  Marcel Hirscher
  • Difference
  • Preparation
  • Icy

• You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Money
  • Economy
  • Consumer

• A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Spring
  • Gun
  • Difference