All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

  • -- John Ruskin 约翰·罗斯金

一切书籍都可以分为二类,即:一时之书和永久之书。

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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

如果有的话,对中下层阶级甚至中上层阶级的税收应该进一步削减。但我认为,像我这样的高端人士应该缴纳更多的税款。我们比以往任何时候都过得更好。

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

最后,我想说,我对伟大没有幻想;恰恰相反,我非常谦虚地认识到,在我四十年的生活中,我的生活是一本公开的书,服务于我的建筑师同行和公共利益。

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

梦想变成了行动。从行动中再次萌生梦想;这种相互依赖产生了最高形式的生活。

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

不管你有多优秀,有多勇敢,或者其他什么,很多时候都取决于那辆车。不是每次,而是很多次。

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

当你推出一个电视节目时,你会得到两种媒体的关注:评论,以及决定评论内容的人。

Call a girl pretty, and she'll forget it in an hour. Call a girl ugly, and she'll remember it for the rest of her life.

叫一个女孩漂亮,她一个小时内就会忘记。叫一个女孩丑,她会一辈子记住的。

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

有些画家把太阳画成黄斑,有些画家把黄斑画成太阳。

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

其他国家的活力只存在于少数几个阶级之中,而我们大多数人却拥有这种活力。

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

最终,书籍的数量总是超过了它们被授予的空间。

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

我最喜欢的书总是我正在写的那本。

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times.

我从来没有打过没有打过我两三次的人。

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

一分耕耘一分收获。

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

当有狗和音乐的时候,人们玩得很开心。

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

疾病常常伴随着笑脸而来。