You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

  • -- Harry S. Truman 哈里·S·杜鲁门

你总是可以修改一个大计划,但你永远不能扩大一个小计划。我不相信小计划。我相信有足够大的计划来应对我们现在无法预见的情况。

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I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

我喜欢夏天午睡时金属百叶窗发出的光,喜欢从高速公路服务处的商店里开车出来休息一下,喜欢加油站的汽油味,喜欢从小斜坡上滚下来的味道。我讨厌你踩在水坑里,水会浸湿你的袜子。

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

没有想法总比没有想法强;什么都不相信,总比相信错的好。

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

最高的艺术总是最虔诚的,最伟大的艺术家总是一个虔诚的人。

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

我的情况应该更糟。按理说,我不应该在这次事故中幸存下来。

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

幽默可以改变任何情况,并帮助我们在大笑的瞬间应对。

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

但当我七八岁的时候,我做了我的第一个小表演。