FastSaying

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.


Ezra Klein

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I was excited. I thought with his ability to manipulate an audience and a smart piece of writing, we...
CILLIAN MURPHY You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being co...
CAROLE BOUQUET In general, those who came to the open house were not in disagreement with our recommendations. At t...
STEVE JACOBSON It's a tremendous loss. What he had yet to accomplish is incomprehensible. Proof was really smart an...
DANIALLE KARMANOS I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ...
DOC WATSON I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwi...
BOB GELDOF When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Wa...
KIRK DOUGLAS What we understood when we were retained ... was that you all were looking for something new. You we...
JOE SPEAR I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an...
EMMA DUMONT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I believe the way the game played out at Rutgers really stung them like nothing ever did before. I t...
GENO AURIEMMA I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Yeah, there were a couple of doubts that I couldn't. But I don't really look at those. I just look a...
KYLE MAYNARD I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy,...
RAM SHRIRAM When they were first kicked out, I was really upset — but we later came to see it as an opportunity...
JENNIFER COLE I wanted to do something that I could look back and say what I did for 30 years really meant somethi...
BILL BARNES When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a litt...
WILLIAM BELL It's not a monetary scholarship. When we take the trip to Washington, D.C., we get to meet with seve...
JUSTIN HOLEMAN I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea...
BEN SILBERMANN People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What...
DERRICK JENSEN At first, I was really, really angry about the whole situation. Especially when we started practicin...
PAUL POSLUSZNY The first thing I did when I came in last November was study all of the reports from all of our scou...
JIM BOWDEN Todd (Bodine) was really strong and he ran a really smart race. I just had to make sure I kept them ...
MARK MARTIN Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t...
BEN SHAHN I had a moment to wonder just what he did at David Emerson's, which really was where Libertyville's ...
STEPHEN KING I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very...
WENDY LARRY I felt like I'm not done. I came here to obviously try to win a national championship and I just fel...
LORENZO BOOKER I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but...
LUPITA NYONG'O I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just fla...
TROY BROWN I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washingto...
DANIEL OKRENT I have been surprised at the amount of commentary and reaction to it. I really have, because to me, ...
AL GORE When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that h...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if ...
JESSE ANDREWS Now, when people are dying, you don't really look at who's offering the help. You take it. The first...
BENAZIR BHUTTO Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that'...
MIKE ROWE When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. ...
HENRY FLYNT I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in l...
ANN BEATTIE You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so ...
ARI GRAYNOR Well I think that, really, when I look back on fifty years of working on folk music in America and e...
ALAN LOMAX What I really liked about Mary Washington was that it was a smaller school and a couple of my friend...
EMMETT RUTKOWSKI I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was rais...
MEGHAN DAUM I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft i...
LEO BAEKELAND You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and t...
MELINA MARCHETTA And I think people really are hungry for a fresh face in Washington … someone with the skills they ...
MIKE FJETLAND I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...
ALDEN EHRENREICH All I can say is it's a lack of communication. It's two people that have a tremendous amount of emot...
AARON DOWNEY When that opportunity came (to go to Arkansas), I just wanted to look at it, ... They had approached...
GEORGE PUGH I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films tha...
CALEB LANDRY JONES No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that.
When we don't want to do something we c...
SUSAN GREGG Really what came out of this was almost an affirmation of issues that the department and really neig...
LYNN HIGHTOWER I think we handled their pressure really well. The girls played hard, played smart and for the most ...
MIKE ALLISON I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha...
ANGELINA JOLIE We were a little worried at first because everyone wanted to give money instead of a gift but things...
FREDDIE LEE I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I'...
TERRY CREWS It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just th...
ELLIE KENDRICK I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who yo...
BEN SILBERMANN What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're sup...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're su...
SOURCE UNKNOWN There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I'...
JAMES LANKFORD I was hurt, but that doesn't account for the first part of the season when I wasn't playing that goo...
ROBB QUINLAN When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was...
CYNTHIA ERIVO From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far betw...
NAYA RIVERA It was just me being a little more aggressive. I was in a little foul trouble in the first half and ...
JOSH HOWARD Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
SEAN GREEN The first day that I ever ran with her in practice I was pretty much blown away. I knew right away t...
LORIE LEWIS Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, 'This is what I want yo...
ALEXA CHUNG I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES It's frustrating. We know we're better than we were last year, and the year before. I think people c...
ALLIE FLYNN I got on him pretty hard to get the ball where he needed to get it and he really came through. He wa...
JASON KERR Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian...
PANKAJ MISHRA What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrat...
CAMILA ALVES My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at ...
BOBBY KNIGHT People think it's crazy -- I'm not going to compare him to this guy -- but what I felt with him at t...
EARNEST BYNER I found that he was always well prepared and was extremely courteous even in the most hectic situati...
ALBERT THOMAS Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never r...
TRENT REZNOR We really regret this, but this was beyond Amtrak's ability. This made it impossible for our trains ...
CLIFF BLACK I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really wa...
SALLY FIELD Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't...
FRANK ABAGNALE I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from '...
NATE TORRENCE When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some...
DOUG E. FRESH Lafayette gave us fits in the first half. They can really score some points. I was happy with how we...
TOM MARRYOTT I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Mari...
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, w...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection betw...
VICKY RIDEOUT The first two days were really, really rough. It was kind of hard to look at each other. But we just...
BARBARA TURNER Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are...
TROYE SIVAN I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
FRANK HERBERT My family did not talk about college. No one went to college. I was the first one to go and the firs...
ALISHA VALENZUELA My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All...
DASH MIHOK When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I...
HAKEEM OLAJUWON I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a dif...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT 'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Becau...
PHILIP BAKER HALL Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and bei...
ANN PATCHETT I was just charging and came up a little short. I can take something out of it because I did ski rea...
MARCO SULLIVAN I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even t...
IVAN REITMAN And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder inj...
DREW BREES

More Ezra Klein

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other...
EZRA KLEIN One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and high...
EZRA KLEIN My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one t...
EZRA KLEIN People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that prop...
EZRA KLEIN Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled ...
EZRA KLEIN When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll s...
EZRA KLEIN The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
EZRA KLEIN My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.
EZRA KLEIN If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.
EZRA KLEIN The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recogn...
EZRA KLEIN Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up...
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND Look in the Mirror that's your competition".
MEIR EZRA Difficult roads often road to beautiful destinations.
MEIR EZRA Live your life happily
MEIR EZRA Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength
MEIR EZRA Be your own hero
MEIR EZRA Live your Dreams
MEIR EZRA There is no elevator to the success, You have to take the stairs.
MEIR EZRA Life is a one time offer, use it well
MEIR EZRA Failure is Success in Progress
MEIR EZRA If it is important to you, then you will find a way.
If not you'll find an excuse.
MEIR EZRA Sharing is the Part of Life
MEIR EZRA Work hard & Be Proud of what you achieve
MEIR EZRA Believe is Yourself
MEIR EZRA The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
MEIR EZRA Sometimes you win, Sometimes you Learn
MEIR EZRA Every Accomplishment starts with the decision to Try
MEIR EZRA Don't call it a dream

Call it a Plan
MEIR EZRA Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs
MEIR EZRA Work Hard Dream Big
MEIR EZRA When you feel like
Quiting
Think about
Why you Started
MEIR EZRA Stop Wishing Start Doing
MEIR EZRA Wake up with determination.
go to bed
with Satisfaction
MEIR EZRA Don't Stop when you are tried.
Stop
"When you are Done !
MEIR EZRA Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other People
MEIR EZRA stay focused and never give up
MEIR EZRA Life is a journey not a Race
MEIR EZRA Stars can't shine without Darkness
MEIR EZRA Good writing is clear thinking made visible
MEIR EZRA Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
EZRA POUND If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
EZRA BOWEN As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow ...
EZRA POUND Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simpl...
EZRA POUND We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized o...
EZRA POUND The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged on...
EZRA POUND The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can unde...
EZRA POUND You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
EZRA POUND I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
EZRA POUND If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo...
EZRA POUND The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
EZRA POUND There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUND I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of re...
EZRA POUND A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is ...
EZRA POUND All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUND A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
EZRA POUND Literature is news that STAYS news.
EZRA POUND It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clo...
EZRA POUND People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she...
EZRA POUND In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse o...
EZRA POUND 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
EZRA POUND One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or perso...
EZRA POUND A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally i...
EZRA POUND I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
EZRA POUND The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
EZRA POUND Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it...
EZRA POUND If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.
IBA EZRA AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
EZRA POUND I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I m...
EZRA POUND Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of in...
EZRA POUND No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows con...
EZRA POUND I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unk...
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
EZRA POUND Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift st...
EZRA MILLER In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
EZRA KOENIG I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
EZRA MILLER I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigoro...
EZRA KOENIG Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you d...
EZRA KOENIG If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
EZRA KOENIG Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, runnin...
EZRA MILLER It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution becaus...
EZRA MILLER But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist withou...
EZRA STILES Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investiga...
EZRA MILLER Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's n...
GEORGE EZRA It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g...
EZRA POUND I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...
EZRA KOENIG We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
EZRA STILES Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
EZRA POUND I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
EZRA KOENIG A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possib...
EZRA STILES And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like ...
EZRA POUND The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
EZRA POUND A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1...
EZRA STILES The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the fal...
EZRA CORNELL Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly dif...
EZRA MILLER I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my ...
EZRA CORNELL Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUND All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understa...
EZRA POUND I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriag...
EZRA CORNELL My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of ou...
EZRA CORNELL There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diff...
EZRA STILES I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those ...
EZRA MILLER As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substa...
EZRA CORNELL If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
EZRA BOWEN If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron t...
EZRA POUND But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is...
EZRA POUND Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the t...
EZRA POUND Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mea...
EZRA POUND The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite fem...
EZRA POUND Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the win...
EZRA POUND Either move or be moved.
EZRA POUND No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it. EZRA POUND I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have...
EZRA MILLER My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.
GEORGE EZRA The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, a...
EZRA POUND I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Eur...
EZRA KOENIG Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good...
EZRA POUND When I was growing up, my brother liked the Beatles, and I liked the Rolling Stones. I think if I we...
GEORGE EZRA Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
EZRA STILES Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your ent...
EZRA MILLER Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
EZRA POUND Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
EZRA KOENIG Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
EZRA CORNELL I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very c...
EZRA MILLER There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is ...
EZRA CORNELL Paul broke the Waldport dry spell of state placers last year when he placed fifth, and now we've mad...
EZRA MORSE A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
EZRA POUND I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think ther...
EZRA KOENIG I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples t...
EZRA KOENIG There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
EZRA POUND My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I r...
EZRA MILLER Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Spea...
EZRA POUND I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, yo...
GEORGE EZRA Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary ...
EZRA STILES When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - c...
EZRA POUND What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it
EZRA POUND Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and l...
EZRA POUND Utter originality is, of course, out of the question
EZRA POUND I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
EZRA POUND If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...
EZRA POUND I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamou...
EZRA MILLER Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
EZRA POUND If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in...
EZRA STILES But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislatur...
EZRA STILES Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import...
EZRA KOENIG My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, c...
EZRA MILLER Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...
EZRA POUND Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
EZRA KOENIG I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can ...
EZRA MILLER When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from bein...
EZRA MILLER I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.
EZRA KOENIG Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel
EZRA POUND No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Under...
EZRA KOENIG My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
EZRA KOENIG I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I oppose...
EZRA CORNELL When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of ...
GEORGE EZRA The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so call...
EZRA POUND A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUND I just tried to body check him and force him to take jump shots. He's a lot bigger than me.
EZRA SMITH