Mistranslation Book Quotes & Sayings

Step 6: Stop enjoying things ironically. Just enjoy them
Know what? I love Britney Spears and Forever 21. And I could pretend like it's this whole meta thing where I'm not actually enjoying it but rather just making this esoteric statement on lowbrow culture, but (insert handjob motion here).
The truth is that I love trashy dance pop and the garments that are its clothing equivalent. You don't need to make your tastes a self-conscious statement about who you are. Just unapologetically like the things you like. — Kelly Williams Brown

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. — John Malkovich

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. — Michael J. Fox

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. — Van Wyck Brooks

I like a lot of glasses about
it highers the tone. — Peter Greenaway

My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao. — Rick Doblin

Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates.10 If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color.11 That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation's prisons and jails, which are over-flowing with black and brown drug offenders. — Michelle Alexander

The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition, that of a damp and rancid dish cloth. — Douglas Adams

I wish my conscience would come alive during the day, when the distractions of daytime life help obscure those sharp, prodding thoughts. — Sara J. Henry

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college. — Dominique Easley

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings. — Robinson Jeffers

You can't demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war. — Colin R. Turner

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. — Henry David Thoreau

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future. — Al Davis