Ezra Pound Quotes

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

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• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Struggle
  • Israel

• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Quality
  • Courage
  • Warrior

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Always

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Country
  • Drink

• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Player
  • Better

• Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • You
  • Hug
  • Bear

• I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Done
  • Funny

• Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Different
  • Happy

• It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Hard
  • Top
  • Stay

• The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • High
  • Soul
  • Fear

• I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

  

  John Thune
  • Good
  • Game
  • Blessed

• I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Life
  • Time
  • Religious

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Energy
  • Emotional
  • Wind

• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Healthy

• And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Life
  • Nights
  • Mouse