Ezra Pound Quotes

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sick

• The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Family
  • Future
  • Fear

• Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Food
  • Change

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Small
  • Gold

• 'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Stupid

• It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Small
  • Mistake

• I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Professional

• I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Period

• I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

  

  Jodi Rell
  • Cancer

• This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • America
  • Success

• If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • School
  • Bad
  • Black

• Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Mistake

• We derive confidence as women from what we wear.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Women
  • Confidence

• I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Stop
  • Nerd

• The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trouble

• Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Live
  • Wonder
  • Face

• I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

  

  Kajol
  • World
  • Work
  • House

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• I don't know anything about computers.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Know
  • Anything
  • Computers

• Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Sleep
  • Discoveries
  • Forgets