The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动，也就是生命，并把它固定住，这样一百年后，当一个陌生人看到它时，它又动了起来，因为这就是生命。

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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

这艘船的重量太大，确实可能使它不能达到最大速度;但当她达到了它，她将通过她自己内在的运动前进，没有获得任何新的速度，或减少她所获得的。

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I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

我有一种感觉，我们都被教育成一种思想流派。我一点也不惊讶，在绝大多数科学家中，有些人会持有一种特定的观点，因为他们所接触到的就是这种观点。

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I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

我喜欢看场景，看看人们是如何相互影响的。这就是为什么我是一名演员，因为我试着去重现那种感觉。自从我们的女儿加入我们以来，这个范围扩大了。

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

人生的目的是欣赏;不欣赏是没有意义的;如果你对他们缺乏欣赏，那么拥有更多的他们就没有意义了。

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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

圣经中有一些事情，据说是由上帝明确的命令来完成的，这对人类和我们对道德正义的每一个观念都是令人震惊的。

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Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

我们愿意把它举起来吗?我们当然会。你不能回头看，我们必须向前看，说我们明年要做什么才能把它找回来。

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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

我现在回想一下，天体的运动是圆的，因为适合于球体的运动是在圆中旋转。

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All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

所有从事研究的科学家都知道，用被动语态写作是人为的;他们不是没有实体的观察者，而是做研究的人。

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于，他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

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I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

我执行命令直到被捕。我没有意识到我在从事间谍活动，我要求在决定我的判决时考虑到这一点。

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

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The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.

玻璃从熔化中形成就像开始计时一样。它重新设定了我们确定数十亿年后的时间。

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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

当你和孩子们一起阅读时，你遇到的一个问题是，一旦他们喜欢某样东西，他们想让你读上一百遍。

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The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

艺术家不需要知道太多;最重要的是，让他本能地工作，像呼吸或走路一样自然地画画。

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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.

对我们大多数人来说，最大的危险不是我们的目标太高而错过了，而是目标太低而我们却达到了。

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Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

年龄只存在于你的脑海中，或者是一种刻板印象。当你对某件事充满激情时，年龄并不意味着什么。

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I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

我认为重要的是，我们不必总是高昂着头说一切都很好。

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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

在我离开城堡之前，我把它的入口固定得很好，伯爵再也不能让亡灵进入了。

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

每一个实验，无论是群众还是个人，只要有一个肉欲和自私的目的，都将失败。

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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

有时候我很想再演一次莎士比亚，我知道也很喜欢演奥兰多。

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Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, broken bones are easier to fix than broken hearts.

有时候我希望我又回到了童年，破碎的骨头比破碎的心更容易修复。

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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

除了我们对一件艺术品的感觉，我们没有其他的方法来认识它。

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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

任何没有自己的内心世界去翻译的人都不是艺术家。

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

国王不是天生的:他们是由人为的幻觉造成的。

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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

混凝土的好处在于它看起来没有完工。

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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

创造力是一个飞跃，然后看它在哪里。

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Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

在贪婪的房子里，爱总是一个陌生人。

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I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

我一直觉得男人应该在晚年结婚。

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Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

人生太短了，二十年都不可能是一个精力充沛的人。

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

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