Depth Quote by Ali Smith

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

“Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction…

— Robert Radcliffe

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.”

— Catherine Douzel

“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.”

— Kakuzo Okahura

“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a license given…

— Muriel Barbery

“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader…

— Andrei Codrescu

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ah, I found you." Came a voice behind me. My heart skipped a beat as a smile spread across my face. How do I…

— Jasmine Dubroff

“Thanks to [language], human beings - and we alone - can truly enter and explore the feelings of others. What an extraordinary skill.”

— Naoki Higashida

“On the bright side, Christy, owner of Tea for Two, seemed perfectly nice. Blue-eyed with dark, chin-length hair, fair skin and rosy cheeks, she…

— Jenny Kales

“For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling…

— Louis Bayard