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

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Money

• Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Good

• 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

• It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Health

• 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

• In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

  

  John Cassavetes
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • May
  • Sleep
  • Exercise

• And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep-And good-by to the bar and its moaning.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Good
  • Sleep

• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Imagination
  • Study
  • Achievements

• 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