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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

David Brin

In these litigious times, if you’re a beginner, it’s becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

Len Wein

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

Joan Miro

Character Painting

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

Liam Gallagher

Flying Man Night Past Thought Walking

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

John Naisbitt

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude Happiness Thought Wonder

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

Sam Levenson

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

Albert Claude

Control Earth Environment Life Survival Years

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained – and still remains – only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Douglas Sirk

Now Relativity Theory World

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Kenzaburo Oe

Act Night Reading Security Sense Trees

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

Benjamin Tucker

Act Ignorance May Punishment Theory

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Neil LaBute

Being Deceit Idea Lying Manipulation Will Woman Women

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I’m going to invest in music.

Melissa Auf der Maur

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I’ve been playing for laughs for decades now! It’s lovely to get a laugh; it’s the best thing in the world!

Richard Briers

Character Funny Love

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

Devotion Man Nothing Woman World

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Charles Simeon

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother – you’re not sure what you’ve got but you’re pretty sure you’re not going to like it.

Jeff Foxworthy

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Earl Blumenauer

Debate Isolation Progress

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Sebastian Bach

It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.

Craig Bruce

Chance Funny Goals Protest

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

William McFee

Man Thought Woman

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom May Potential Security World

There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Carrie Underwood

American People Reading

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don’t have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Kelly Clarkson

Drinks Food Will

The philosophy of the school was quite simple – the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

Boys Geography Philosophy Rest School Science

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

Mark Foley

Character Children Development Education Parents Schools Students Values

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Edgar Degas

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Trisha Goddard

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Meryl Streep

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It’s definitely a beautiful instrument.

Mike Gordon

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

Theodore White

There might be a different model for a literary community that’s quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

George Saunders

Community Literary Spontaneity

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Being Fact Men Myths

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Dag Hammarskjold

Eye Right Road Will

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Jessamyn West

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

Alan Shepard

Design End Testing

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

J. Michael Straczynski

Change Idea World

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

John P. Kennedy

If Woody Allen called me, I’d be there straight away. Who wouldn’t? Truly.

Julie Delpy

I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.

Arthur Miller

Hope Mistake Self

I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

Martina Navratilova

Career People Twilight

I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence.

Jessica Simpson

The nice thing about New York is that you’re finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

Kyle MacLachlan

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

Tim Berners Lee

Idea Information Will

I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

Bernhard Langer

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today’s Britain. Today we don’t.

Francis Maude