The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  • -- Hendrik Willem van Loon 亨德里克·威廉·房龙

艺术比股市或国会辩论更能反映我们这个世界正在发生的事情。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

对不起,这是真的。有孩子真的会改变你对这些事情的看法。我们出生,只活了短暂的一瞬间,然后就死了。这已经发生很长时间了。技术并没有给它带来多大改变——如果有的话。

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

我是否希望我们生活在一个性别不那么重要的世界里?答案是肯定的。你当我去做艺术的时候,我是否把自己当成了一个女人?当然不是。

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

股市对首席执行官有一种潜在的影响这不仅影响到他们的公司,也影响到他们自己的银行账户。

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

突然的分辨率,就像气压计中汞的突然上升一样,只能表明天气的变化。

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

当国会开会的时候,这个国家就会有同样的感觉,就像婴儿拿起锤子一样。

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

国会应该对我们制定的政策进行前瞻性思考,而不是等到灾难来临。

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

一般人不知道发生了什么,甚至不知道自己不知道。

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

感觉就像欧文和我…即使在晚上,我也不觉得我必须在床上看起来很漂亮。

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

我们这个时代的文学作品就是以这样一种方式呈现的,它在辩论问题。

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

只有天堂本身比一个真正的朋友更好。

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

我们想用我们现有的产品做一个尽可能大的市场。

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

实践一个好主意比仅仅有一个好主意要好。

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

世界其他国家想要我们的钱;我们喜欢塑料。

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.

我爱市场,它是我的工作,我的游戏和我的生活。

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活。

Judge not of a ship as she lies on the stocks.

不要对一艘船评头论足。

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

但我确实认为有必要进行辩论。

I've always been interested in martial arts.

我一直对武术感兴趣。

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

理解就是原谅,甚至原谅自己。

Better not to exist than live basely.

与其过卑贱的生活,不如不生活。

Luck is an art.

运气是一门艺术。