Ezra Pound Quotes
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
Ezra Pound
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal
There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
Ilan Stavans
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
Raf Simons
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
Maira Kalman
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
Zig Ziglar
Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
Barack Obama
Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
Eddie Izzard
I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
Cy Twombly
Being interested in science and engineering is not a male quality.
Emily Calandrelli
I'm a science goober.
Mary Roach
Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.
John Wells
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Erica Jong
I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
William Shakespeare
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
Ezra Pound
