Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

对宇宙的思考现在已经交给了专家们。我们其余的人只是读到它。

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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

当很多人有更有价值的表达方式时,人们在单口喜剧中犯的错误是认为自己很深刻。

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

我记得有一次,当我开始为中音萨克斯管写作时,一个萨克斯手告诉我要把它想象成双簧管和中提琴的混合体,但声音要大一些。

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

文字出现后,不能或不被允许阅读的大众,由少数能阅读的人来布道。

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

说一个人是虚荣的,仅仅意味着他对自己给别人带来的影响感到满意。

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

我倾向于读更多的非小说类书籍,真的,因为当我写作的时候,我不喜欢读其他的小说。

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

历史不仅触及语言,而且发生在语言之中。