Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire

Life Spirit Word

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music – they are music.

Dinah Shore

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Barack Obama

Chris and I care about each other and we’re still friends. Tom is the most incredible man in the world.

Katie Holmes

Care Friends Man World

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein

Genius Insanity Success

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

John Foster

The British have given me good support for the last 8 years and have always believed in me.

Jonathan Brown

Sometimes I like to vent.

Victoria Jackson

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Friends God Relatives

We’re going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you’ve always expected from Playstation – a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

Ian Jackson

Environment Quality Value

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Lee Ritenour

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

People Reason Will

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Twyla Tharp

Control Night People Sleep Want

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Johnny Weissmuller

Competition Nations People Violence

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Jill Scott

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Adam Duritz

There’s nothing in the world that isn’t good, bad, and indifferent.

Ninette de Valois

I’ve spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

Joe Mantegna

Traveling Years

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom

Future Literary states United

Well, I’m proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Jason Biggs

American Film Thought

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

Shane West

Beginning End Friends Popular School

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

Kate Greenaway

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

Jim Evans

Improvement Problems Work

If the timing’s right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

Rick Springfield

I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Mary Harris Jones

Government Life Mother

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Josiah Royce

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

Frances Burney

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Leonard Bernstein

Don’t commit to being a columnist unless you’re willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan

Being Family Interest Right Will

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

Evening Man Prayer Sleep

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals. There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

Alan Price

Guitar Play Time

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Mark Hoppus

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

Marcus V. Pollio

Care Country Light

I’m a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

Elisabeth Rohm

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Dorothy Day

Community Loneliness

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

Ralph Bakshi

I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say “figment.”

Andy Warhol

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they’ve sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Tony Greig

Competence Decision Doubt End People

I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Hayao Miyazaki

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Henny Youngman

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

George Herbert

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba – not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

Mel Martinez

Focus Needs Opposition Support

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

George G. Simpson

Man Mind Result

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

Career Character Love News

I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.

Kiana Tom

Goal Goals Office

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

Billy Martin