Bialek And Bialek Quotes & Sayings

The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive. — Gael Garcia Bernal

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me. — Courtney Love

The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later. — Robert Duncan

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach. — Pete Carroll

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

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am. — Justin Timberlake