Ezra Pound Quotes

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

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• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Red
  • Say
  • Texas

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Real
  • Like
  • Dreams

• I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Open
  • Hometown

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Success

• The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

  

  Pele

• The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

  

  Marcel Pagnol
  • People
  • Happy
  • Future

• Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Art
  • Financial
  • Search

• I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • World
  • Character

• My parents were very indiscrete.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Parents

• I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Time

• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Brave

• When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

  

  Conor Maynard
  • Remember
  • Cold
  • Girlfriend

• The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Fun
  • Human
  • Emotion

• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stress

• Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Emotion
  • Weak
  • Jealousy

• I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Stress
  • Emotion