The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep… — Arthur Chu Copy Share Image
The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it. — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
