Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  • -- Confucius 孔子

相信我,老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然,你被轻轻地推下了舞台,但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。

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It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

我希望在我这短暂的宇宙之旅中,我能与你们分享聆听星星音乐的喜悦……我知道这位作曲家来自一个遥远的地方,这些歌是很久以前写的,现在轻轻地落在这个地方,让所有人都能听到。

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.

让我猝不及防的是去吃饭的时候,有人向我要签名或者拍照。人们到我家来要签名——这是我还没有完全掌握的事情。

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

重要的是,仅仅因为我做得好并不意味着如果他们感染了艾滋病毒他们也会做得好。自从我宣布以来,已经有很多人死了。这种病哪儿也去不了。

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

我偷东西就是。我大约五岁,从一家商店里拿了一颗糖果。我们付了三个钱,但我拿了四个,我回家后哭了。我妈妈把我带回来了,我赔偿了丢失的那块。

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

如果我制作它,我将把它作为一个表演舞台。一小部分观众将被邀请;这些部分的排练将在上午进行,这些部分将在下午录音。

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

我给观众参与的可能性。观众通过思考来完成影片;那些观看视频的人绝不能仅仅是消费者,他们正在吞食着汤匙喂给他们的图像。

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

没有明智、良好和公正的生活是不可能过上愉快的生活的。不过一种愉快的生活是不可能明智地、良好地、公正地生活的。

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

我在费城交了很多好朋友,我最不愿意做的事就是跟踪俱乐部里的任何人。如果我这样说,那就是个错误。

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

我认为每个人都应该上大学,拿到学位,然后做六个月的酒保和六个月的出租车司机。这样他们才会真正受到教育。

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

的确,我也厌倦了把书当作政治子弹和手榴弹。书太珍贵,太精彩了,不能这样长时间地使用。

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

我从来没有想象过自己会在儿童部门工作。我一直认为我更愿意和青少年或成年人一起做牧师。

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

雕刻家通过凿掉大理石中不需要的部分来雕刻出美丽的雕像,这是一个淘汰的过程。

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

我相信,如果论坛报业集团试图关闭箭牌球场,全球各地都会发出抗议。

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

我喜欢唱歌,也很喜欢写作,但是在舞台上,我没有那么舒服,这一点我想已经很清楚了。

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

坟墓,可怕的东西!人们一听到你的名字就发抖;大自然惊骇万分,抖掉了她惯有的坚强。

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

我以一种极端的方式成为了一个成年人。我最近在整理一些旧照片,发现了另一张。

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

这是一个理想的足球天-太冷的观众和球员太冷。

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

当有个白痴在你前面疯狂地开车时,你最好的一面也会完蛋。

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

大多数有智慧的人不相信上帝,但他们同样害怕他。

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

野蛮残忍的野兽是不会被关在笼子里的。他在它的前面。

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

你削减了他们的钱,首先……我在国家能源局工作很久了。

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

我从来没有买过商业的东西,在游戏的任何阶段。

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

我的国家就是世界,我的信仰就是行善。

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

愉快的抓挠之后,随之而来的是不愉快的刺痛。

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

爱是美好的,但不经意间降临的爱更为美好。

Better a poor horse than an empty stall.

宁为穷马,不为空马。

Let no such man be trusted.

这样的人,你们不可信。