Laiman Quotes & Sayings

There is no bigger sin than men cruelly abusing their power to keep their own nation in servitude, he said, and he did not need to explain who the sinners were. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

We don't want to watch boring characters. — Megalyn Echikunwoke

Friends, you and me ... you brought another friend ... and then there were three ... we started our group ... our circle of friends ... and like that circle ... there is no beginning or end. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons. — Fiona Apple

The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate. — Charles Koch

Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable. — Edith Grossman

It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed. — Thomas Vanek

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare

Love was such a complex emotion, so overpowering and all-consuming. Love conquered all, the old saying went. — Barbara Delinsky

the thought process:
"It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it, until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?" p.5 — Virginia Woolf

Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality. — Kevin Eikenberry

This very morning, an hour agone, he has mounted his white ass for the return journey to Vyones. — H.P. Lovecraft

Love was the balm that tried to cure everything, the shutters in front of one's eyes, keeping out the harsh, cruel face of the world. — Anonymous

Language supplies us with ways to express ever subtler levels of meaning, but does that imply language gives meaning, or robs us of it when we are at a loss to name things? — Lucy Grealy