Compote Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ... — Lydia Davis

Do you have any idea what it does to me when you put yourself in danger? And so willingly, no less! — Charlie N. Holmberg

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents. — Jane Wagner

Why a widow should raise an attractive or pathetic image in one's mind, or at the worst something rather bold and dashing, while widower seemed to have a vague connection with the word mother-in-law cannot be explained. Brightness falls from even Clive Newcome when we have to envisage him as a young widower in mourning. As for David Copperfield, his creator most wisely sent him abroad almost at once, and while he was still in England surrounded him with events so overwhelming that we never have time to think of his widowerhood. She — Angela Thirkell

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. — Tim Burton

Who knows? You might get used to this slant on things (but if you did, you'd never be able to view the world again without holding your head out of true.) — Haruki Murakami

But then I'm distracted by movement in the Forest, a glimpse of red at the edge of my vision. She's no longer running, no longer even walking or standing, but crawling now. Dragging her broken body across the ground toward me, her fingers clawing at the dirt. Her progress is slow, unbearably so. Such that it's almost sad to see her reduced to this. Her body has used up it's stores of energy and has begun collapsing in on itself. — Carrie Ryan

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories. — Haruki Murakami

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. — Mark Rylance

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does. — Morton Irving Seiden

With basketball, if a guy is having an off night you still can say he's a good athlete. But with a comedian, you see them in front of the wrong audience - and they can look like complete amateurs. It's remarkable. — Gary Gulman