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.

  • -- Elbert Hubbard 埃尔伯特·哈伯德

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。

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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

一旦你明白了这一点,你就能让你的房间充满活力;你可以和你的家人一起设计房子;给你的孩子一个花园;你可以工作的地方;美丽的露台,您可以坐在那里梦想。

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

当我拿到一台电视机时,我们没有天线,但我发现,如果我或其中一个孩子站在它旁边,你就能拍到一张照片。所以我不得不做一个可以站在电视机旁的雕像。

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

如果我们不能开始就基本问题达成一致,比如消除最具虐待性的童工形式,那么我们真的还没有准备好走向未来。

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.

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。

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

艺术产生丑陋的东西,而丑陋的东西往往随着时间的推移而变得更加美丽。另一方面,时尚产生的美丽的东西总是随着时间变得丑陋。

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

你成为作家的过程是一个相当孤独的过程。我们没有像小提琴手为管弦乐队训练那样的集体学徒制。

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

亲爱的上帝!美在自然和艺术中是如何变化的。女人的肉体必须像大理石;大理石雕像必须像肉一样。

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

艺术家创作是为了解放他的灵魂。创造是他的天性,就像水从山上流下来一样。

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

雕刻家或画家经常谈论或写他的作品是错误的。这释放了他工作所需要的紧张情绪。

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

有人说你长得好看总是件好事。但有人说我不适合演角色,因为我长得太帅了。

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

如果一个人把他想扔掉的东西都给了别人,那他就没有慷慨;因为慷慨的本质在于自我牺牲。

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

正是无知的眼睛给每件事物赋予了固定不变的色彩;小心这个绊脚石。

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

雕刻家是对事物的形状感兴趣的人,是文字中的诗人,是声音中的音乐家。

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

我可不是那种每天早上都在同一个时间上班的人。然后,需要假期。

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

这是一个很难驾驭的过程……去弄清楚你的孩子应该去哪里上大学。

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

隔阂恰恰表现在人与人之间距离的消除上。

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

让女人回头率最高的方法就是告诉她,她的侧影很漂亮。

Sometimes you have to walk away from what you want to find what you deserve.

有时候你不得不放弃你想要的,去寻找你应得的。

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

雕刻家挥舞着凿子,被击打的大理石变得美丽。

To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

死在你身边是一种天堂般的死亡方式。

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

我喜欢我职业生涯的所有部分。

A book that is shut is but a block.

有书闭卷不阅读,无异是一块木头。