60 Quotations with Slate.
- 1. Eric Hoffer: The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an in ...
- 2. John F. Kennedy: Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, bec ...
- 3. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 7. Philip Slater: A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another person's will.
- 8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into ...
- 9. Johann Nestroy: You can't legislate against rumor.
- 10. Bertrand Russell: A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because h ...
- 11. Christine Frankland: Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it
- 12. Warren Bennis: Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intentio ...
- 13. Marcus T. Cicero: A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
- 14. Boris Pasternak: As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, a ...
- 15. Giuseppe Mazzini: Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mi ...
- 16. John Donne: God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sick ...
- 17. Gail Godwin: I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that i ...
- 18. Christian Slater: If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. ...
- 19. Franklin D. Roosevelt: In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world fou ...
- 20. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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