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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
Right
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
David Brin
People
Privacy
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
People
Work
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
Courage
Talent
The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
John Naisbitt
Leader
Order
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
Wife
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
Money
Music
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
God
Women
Work
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
Present
Pretty
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
Life
Love
Play
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
Space
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Time
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
Idea
Painting
I speak to people who have been through so much more.
Trisha Goddard
People
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Meryl Streep
Business
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
Sound
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White
Living
Money
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
Open
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
Love
Talk
Time
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
Clothes
Winter
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
Play
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today’s Britain. Today we don’t.
Francis Maude
Today