When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

  • -- Marcel Achard 马塞尔·阿夏尔

当我讲课时,我接受人们看表,但我不能容忍的是,当他们看表时,把表举到耳边,看表是否停了。

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Brilliant lecturers shouldn’t be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear on TV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don’t leave out the poor.

优秀的演讲者不应该浪费在教室里:他们应该出现在电视上。我们需要黑市大学,在那里人们互相帮助,不把穷人排除在外。

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

如果不是一颗宝石,甚至一朵花,我们应该把爱的思想作为礼物扔进朋友的心里,那将是天使的给予。

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

我支持华尔街占领者。但当他们发现我向孩子们出售打包的抵押贷款违约工具时,他们会接受我吗?

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

小岛都是大监狱:人们望着大海,不能不希望有一只燕子的翅膀。

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

对我来说,我想让我的孩子找到自己的路。如果他们对某件事感兴趣,我想让他们试试。

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

我试着寻找每个人的优点,不管他们被贴上什么样的标签。

If you want to fly you have to give up all the shit that weighs you down.

如果你想飞,你必须放弃所有压在你身上的东西。

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

有些人在睡梦中说话。当别人睡觉时,老师们却在讲话。

Rumors  are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.

谣言由仇恨者传播,由傻瓜传播,被傻瓜接受。

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

我过去常慢跑,但冰块总是从我的杯子里掉出来。

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

无论我走到哪里,我都发现在我之前就有一位诗人在那里。

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

驾驭故事的不是声音,而是耳朵。

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

我们之所以用耳朵去听,只是因为我们的心不够用。