Quaedam Translation Quotes

#1. What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

James E. Shapiro

#2. After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

Mary-Louise Parker

#4. I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Antonio Tabucchi

#5. World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#6. I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

Nora Roberts

#7. No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

Viola Davis

#8. At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

Candace Bushnell

#9. For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#10. If you don't sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

William Wells Brown

#12. I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, £12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous.

Jane Birkin

#13. I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

Julian Schnabel

#14. You know nothing for sure ... except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

John F. Kennedy

#15. May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

William Ellery Channing