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

• 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

• 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

• 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'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

  

  Kayla Ewell

• I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Moving

• We are not a typical family that goes for a movie on Sunday or has dinner together every night. But we are strong as the Great Wall of China. Nothing can stop us from supporting one another and enduring each other's pain as well.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Great
  • Family
  • Together

• Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Earth

• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

  

  James Turrell
  • Fire

• I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

  

  Mary Docter

• 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Nice
  • Feelings
  • Flower

• The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Simple
  • Persons
  • Said

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Position

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

  

  Ezra Pound