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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.
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For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.
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If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
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The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
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Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.
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There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman
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Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.
