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
  • Original
  • Version
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Culture

• I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, "Darius, you have already passed that mark in your career. You have done prime time and feature films and continue to go upward," and I go, "Are you kidding me?".

  

  Darius McCrary
  • Done
  • Past
  • Careers

• One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Death
  • Dreaming
  • Covering

• They the Soviets intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict.... Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression.

  

  Anatoliy Golitsyn
  • Depression
  • United States
  • Restructuring

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

  

  Erich Segal
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