A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事情
Things
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
当一个漫画家最好的事情就是走进一个酒吧或者别人的公寓,他们不认识你,但是他们已经把你的一幅画粘好了。
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
我通常会先从观众的角度来看待这些事情,然后再仔细观察他们谈论我的具体角色。
There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.
你在生活中所做的某些事情会给你一种纯粹的感觉,这种感觉独立于实际发生的事情。
There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.
我能想到很多我想做的事情。像你这样的记者就是其中之一。脱口秀主持人也可以。我想做很多。
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
总是试着为别人做些事情,你会愉快地惊奇地发现事情是如何发生的——为你做了多少令人愉快的事情。
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
挑战让你发现自己从未真正了解的东西。是它们让乐器变得有弹性,让你超越常规。
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
除尘就是一个很好的例子,说明试图把事情做好是徒劳的。一旦你掸去灰尘,你下一次掸灰的事实就已经确定了。
They came out and closed down a lot of things. They're definitely a good defensive team. You know you've got to knock down shots when you get open looks.
他们走了出来,关闭了很多公司。他们绝对是一支防守很好的球队。你知道当你得到空位的时候,你必须把球投进。
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
有许多事情,一个老人应该在一个人还小的时候告诉他;因为当一个人长大了,就会理所当然地认识他们。
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
但通常我从画开始,所以很多东西都是在画中完成的。但即便如此,我仍然允许并希望做出改变。
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
我认为每件事的发生都是有原因的,所有发生在我身上的事情——好的,坏的——我很高兴他们这样做了。它让我为生活做好了准备,为成年做好了准备。
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
对一个外国的人影响最大的不是找到或没有找到熟悉的东西;而是在熟悉的地方找不到他们。
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
艺术家就是那些创造出人们不需要的东西的人。
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
除非你主动询问,否则你不会听到关于你公司的不好的事情。听到好消息很容易,但是你必须努力才能听到坏消息。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世界上最珍贵的东西。大多数人是存在的,仅此而已。
You may love the wrong person, cry for the wrong reason. But one things is for sure, mistakes help us to find the right person.
你可能爱错了人,哭错了理由。但有一件事是肯定的,错误帮助我们找到正确的人。
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
孩子们记住你,不是因为你提供了物质上的东西,而是因为你珍惜他们的感觉。