Erich Segal Quotes

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

Erich Segal

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• I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

  

  George Benson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Language
  • Greek
  • Translations

• The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Trying
  • Difficult
  • Musician

• Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Special

• In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • Version
  • Original
  • Quotes

• Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

  

  Danielle Arbid
  • Young
  • Values
  • Kindness

• When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

  

  Darren McCarty
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Objects

• If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

  

  Gary D. Schmidt
  • Answers
  • Stills
  • Beens

• How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Language

• If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

  

  Kushal Pal Singh
  • India
  • Beens
  • Urbanization

• I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

  

  Laura Pausini
  • Artist
  • Personality
  • Traditional

• The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

  

  William Walker Atkinson
  • Mind
  • Pieces
  • Paper

• Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

  

  Walter Farley
  • Companion
  • Beens
  • Goes

• If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

  

  Trick Daddy
  • Together
  • Beens
  • Mama

• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

  

  Michael Steinhardt
  • Hardest
  • Beens
  • Consensus

• Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

  

  Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Film
  • Process
  • Beens

• The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

  

  Michael Winslow
  • Difficult
  • Keys
  • Beens

• It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Opportunity
  • Difficult
  • Beens

• Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Jobs
  • Accidents
  • Beens

• ... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Divine
  • Burning
  • Beens

• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Understanding
  • Understood
  • Threads

• I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. ... The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Kind

• Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

  

  Erich Segal
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