Ezra Pound Quotes

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Free
  • Design
  • Sky

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Simple
  • Style
  • Very

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • You
  • Evil

• Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Exchange
  • Mediums

• I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Car
  • Over
  • Coming

• People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Guy
  • Day

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• 5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Real

• It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

  

  Marya Mannes

• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Marriage

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Mind
  • Sea