Trans Lawrence Venuti Quotes & Sayings

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by). — Richard Sibbes

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig. — Aziz Ansari

The Paraclete and "Book of Martha" narratives were ultimately versions of the dream of "fixing" of the human species that had driven (and stymied) the Parables books: "On the one hand," she writes in her journal, "I want to write fix-the-world scenario. I seem to need to write them. The fact that I don't believe in them--don't believe humanity is fixable--does create a problem — Gerry Canavan

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round. — Sandra Lee

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. — Tanith Lee

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it. — Willie Geist

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing. — Ajahn Chah

...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society. — Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

Comedy is second nature for me. — Anthony Anderson