The science has got to the point where you can actually do some genetic modifications. In this Olymp...
DICK POUND I am speculating that it is clear in leaked grand jury testimony that he acknowledged he did it.
DICK POUND One expected test in spring training, an announced test during the season and one random test [aren'...
DICK POUND You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A ...
DICK POUND It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in ...
DICK POUND He's free to say what he wants. But it's irresponsible. It's just wrong ... the reaction he's had fr...
DICK POUND That took place before the Word Anti-Doping Agency even existed so it's a matter for the internation...
DICK POUND I think that is errant nonsense, as is the claim that 'Oh well, if we let management put in these re...
DICK POUND Governments have reached an important milestone. But it is also a crossroads. The convention doesn't...
DICK POUND I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,
DICK POUND I was simply defending my profession and my passion.
DICK POUND It's ... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a parti...
DICK POUND Our suggestion has been to (Verbruggen), 'Why are you looking farther than the UCI in respect of dis...
DICK POUND It's .... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a part...
DICK POUND It's .... quite clear the only way there could have been a match between the code numbers and a part...
DICK POUND Mr. Verbruggen told us that he showed all of the forms of Mr. Armstrong to L'Equipe and that he even...
DICK POUND We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from t...
DICK POUND I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, 'Well, I guess we do know how the...
DICK POUND They are convinced they are fully compliant. We'll have a look at that and see whether or not we agr...
DICK POUND I've heard that it is somebody who ran one of the preliminary rounds, not the final of one of the re...
DICK POUND There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND This is a good lift for us. We're getting there. It's on-the-job training, but we're getting there. ...
AL POUND What have we got to lose? The kid threw a bullet and he just beat it. That's the hardest run to make...
AL POUND We're playing so much better. We should have beat Keystone the other day. And we beat (Union County)...
AL POUND It's the best he's ever pitched. He's pitched pretty well all year. We finally gave him some (defens...
AL POUND They're probably the best team we've seen.
AL POUND That's probably the best Chase has ever pitched. You can't have that many errors behind you.
AL POUND This is probably the only team we play where we've got more talent. But Nate went the whole way. He'...
AL POUND If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND That started things. (Sharper) didn't see it. He never picked it up off the bat. And then the bottom...
AL POUND We'd gotten away from making so many errors. We were just flat coming out. We had been playing decen...
AL POUND We've got a little something going.
AL POUND 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 law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
ROSCOE 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 Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
EZRA POUND 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 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 Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with comple...
RICHARD POUND Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND 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 Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
EZRA POUND 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 It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseb...
RICHARD POUND 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 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 The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
ROSCOE POUND Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
ROSCOE POUND Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the win...
EZRA POUND Give them credit. They may be the best hitting team in this thing. They made adjustments and hit the...
AL 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 The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, a...
EZRA POUND Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good...
EZRA POUND Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...
EZRA POUND You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not a...
RICHARD POUND 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 There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
EZRA POUND Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Spea...
EZRA POUND 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 Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
EZRA POUND All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that wo...
RICHARD POUND If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...
EZRA POUND Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel
EZRA POUND For some reason I just started writing and out came this play. It's a series of monologs. All of the...
DANIEL POUND I started writing it in 2002 and kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. This is a different...
DANIEL POUND I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any...
DANIEL POUND 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 If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have no...
EZRA POUND Нет такой формы банальности, которую нельзя без труда �...
EZRA POUND The Garden

En robe de parade.
- Samain


Like a skein of loose silk...
EZRA POUND If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUND I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
EZRA POUND Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
EZRA POUND The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still
ROSCOE POUND Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep her...
EZRA LOOMIS POUND Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is ...
DICK MORRIS Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and...
DICK CAVETT I had no blood relatives till I made some.
ANDY DICK Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETT It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
DICK SMOTHERS We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stori...
DICK SMOTHERS Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.
DICK SMOTHERS Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
DICK SMOTHERS If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervis...
DICK ARMEY Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you&#...
ANDY DICK We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. Ther...
DICK COSTOLO There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, a...
DICK MORRIS The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
DICK SPRING Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's lif...
DICK CLARK It's real good to be back with you again this year.
DICK CLARK If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
DICK CLARK I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
DICK CLARK The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never fe...
DICK CAVETT You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He&#...
DICK GEPHARDT My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing o...
DICK DALE These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fac...
DICK DURBIN The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - i...
DICK CAVETT My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
DICK SCHAAP We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. B...
DICK DURBIN Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
DICK VERMEIL Losing is a part of winning.
DICK MUNRO Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
DICK CLARK I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
DICK CLARK Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.
DICK ARMEY Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
DICK ARMEY When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
DICK HOUSER It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
DICK CAVETT To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETT And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
DICK BUTKUS I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said...
DICK BUTKUS I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I wa...
DICK BUTKUS Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Foo...
DICK BUTKUS I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important
DICK BUTKUS I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a ...
DICK MARTIN You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
DICK ARMEY I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY Detective Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD Intelligence Division hated upstate New York. Hated the whole idea...
DICK WOLF I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...
DICK MARTIN