Ezra Pound Quotes

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Ocean

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Take Care

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kid
  • Read
  • Others

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Respect
  • Child
  • Door

• When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Exercise
  • Stock

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women

• Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

  

  Dennis Brown
  • Time

• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Energy
  • Idea
  • Image