Bialek Quotes & Sayings

I think it's just the nature of our game that we're friends out here, although we are competitors, we are friends. And you like to see your friend do well, and you sometimes need another pair of eyes. — Steve Stricker

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life. — Alison Krauss

Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine. — Anne Bronte

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. — Michael Kinsley

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. — Martha Graham

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other. — Julia Green

The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene. — Leonora Speyer

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now. — John McCain

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one. — Murray Bookchin

Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You 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. — Anne Michaels

Again and again parents describe ... the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look. — Marie Winn