Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  • -- Cordell Hull 科德尔船体

过了河再侮辱鳄鱼。

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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

这条河不停地转弯、弯曲,你永远不知道它会流向何方,也不知道最终会流向何方。沿着河流的转弯处走,走自己的路意味着你走对了路。不要让任何人阻止你那样做。

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

我常常注意到,当我赋予小说中的人物一些珍贵的往事之后,它就会在我突然赋予它的那个人造的世界里枯萎。

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

只有经过多年的准备,年轻的艺术家才应该触摸色彩——不是用来描述色彩的,而是作为一种个人表达的手段。

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

如果我对终点线有一些固定的想法,你不认为我几年前就能越过终点线吗?

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

我从来没有拍过有我音乐的电影。我没有把它们交叉那么多。

You can never enter the same river twice.

你不可能两次进入同一条河。