#ere

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#insist #knowing #limited #men #mere

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bell #implies #interference #other #people

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#called #club #comedy #comics #connection

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#anywhere #because #come #first #flight

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#behaved #boy #difference #girl #guilt

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#clever #geniuses #i #i do #i think

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #annoying #back #conversation #degree