A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
Book
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
写一本关于即兴创作的书在一定程度上是自相矛盾的。即兴创作是自发的。就在当下。
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
如果你读了很多书,你就被认为读得很好。但是如果你看很多电视,你就会被认为没有被很好地观看。
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
因为我花了很长时间来制作每一本书,所以我只选择我真正感兴趣和喜欢的书。
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
一本好书应该给你留下丰富的经验,让你略显疲惫。读这本书的时候,你应该多活几辈子。
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
在廉价商店和汽车站,人们谈论情况,读书,重复引用,在墙上得出结论。
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
我花了两年时间写一本书,两天后我收到了第一封电子邮件:下一封什么时候出版?
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
这并不是说:“读了这本书,你就会有不同的想法。我写了这本书,我的想法并没有什么不同。
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
我们读书要像交友一样谨慎。死者往往比生者拥有更大的权力。
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
爱书的人永远不会缺少一个忠实的朋友,一个健康的顾问,一个快乐的伴侣,或一个有效的安慰者。
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
我以前每个星期六都理发,这样我就不会错过任何一本漫画书。我小时候几乎没有头发!
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
当谈到家务时,没有一本家政书籍能告诉你如何开始。也许我是说为什么。
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
图书销售人员应该受到尊敬,因为他通常会让我们注意到我们最需要和最忽视的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
要读的书不是为你着想的书,而是让你思考的书。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
没有比读书更忠实的朋友了。
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
有些书让我们自由,有些书让我们自由。
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
你知道,他会去看不同的有趣的书,因为他希望他的角色是不同的,做不同的脸。我在他的房间里看到一本有趣的书,看起来就像他正在扮演的那个角色。是关于一只鸭子的。
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
如果你手里拿着一本书,你就是一个新城市的朝圣者。