Ezra Pound Quotes

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!

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• The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sweet

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Sought

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • People
  • Fear
  • Find

• That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Good
  • Why
  • Turkey

• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Acting
  • Going
  • Actress

• Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Free

• You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Truth

• Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Deep

• And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

  

  Lloyd Cutler

• You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.

  

  Jason Aaron

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

  

  John Battelle
  • Small

• Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Nice

• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World

• The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

  

  Swami Sivananda
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Yoga

• Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!

  

  Ezra Pound