Mistranslated Quotes

#1. Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression of love between two people in love, but it's a carnal expression.

RZA

#2. Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.

Jodi Meadows

#3. You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

John Kitzhaber

#5. Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.

Joseph Story

#6. I will live a joyful simple life, doing what I love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. An oath is a promise - and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

Veronica Rossi

#8. He'd said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength

Veronica Rossi

#9. Knowing didn't make it any easier. Aria

Victoria Schwab

#10. Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

Leila Janah

#11. I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

Sydney Brenner

#12. Choose well or die. I don't care which. Just don't get blood on my coat.

Sherrilyn Kenyon