"When we learn to speak, we learn to translate."

-- Octavio Paz

#Speak Quotes #Translate Quotes

“Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.”
“Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!”
“Before Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after Grease 2, nobody would touch me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.263, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.”

Source : "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.”
“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

Source : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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