"To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author."

-- Paul Goodman

#Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes #Nuance Quotes

“No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”
“I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.”
“I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.”
“A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.”
“My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.”
“My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.”
“I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.”

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