Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

  • -- Ernest Bramah 欧内司特·布拉默

虽然有成千上万的话题可以进行优雅的交谈,但是有些人在遇到瘸子时不能不谈到脚。

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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

我妈妈有一个很好的方法让我参与到关于我所做的选择的对话中,倾听,保持客观和开放的心态,尊重这些选择,只要它们不会让我处于危险之中。

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

我想我叔叔可能是我一生中影响最大的人。我们在同一个房子里长大,他是一个非常伟大、勤奋、诚实、有道德的人。

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

雕塑像我们一样占据着真实的空间……你绕着它走,几乎把它和另一个人或另一个物体联系起来。

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

沙漠有它的沉默的神圣,人群有它的谈话的神圣。