I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  • -- Jonathan Stroud 乔纳森·斯庄德

我读了一些冰岛的传奇故事。它们的迷人之处在于它们完全是普通的。农夫会跑到山里去和巨怪搏斗,然后回去做一些普通的事情。这是幻想和现实的奇怪结合。

相关名言

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

而诗人,在我看来,我认为大多数人的观点,的确是在说上帝的语言——它比普通人在日常生活中说的语言更好,更好,更高级。

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

这是一个伟人的标志,他把一切平凡的算计都付诸行动。他既崇高又感人,既孩子气又有巨人的血统。

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

首先,我认为报道政治的人没有任何政治观点是很奇怪的。

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

我不是一个伟大的笑话作家,这对于一个喜剧演员来说很奇怪,但我不是。