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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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson
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
To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Olga Kurylenko
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
Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
John Adams
What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
Albert Einstein
The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.
Fred Wilson
My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
Keith Thibodeaux
Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
Keith Thibodeaux
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Barney Oliver
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.
Cynthia Breazeal
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
Alan Colmes
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
