Andreï Makine Quotes

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

  

  Imelda May
  • Bad
  • Movies
  • Loved

• If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Great
  • Baby
  • Find

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Intellectual

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Home
  • Feel
  • Ballgame

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Miracle

• Cancer is always funny.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Cancer

• Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Free
  • Word
  • Dynamic

• The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Wealth
  • Ownership
  • Factories

• Sometimes it music in my head is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep making music, because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.

  

  Prince
  • Music
  • Gift
  • Curse

• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Action
  • Training
  • Helping

• The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

  

  Andreï Makine
  • Slave
  • Rival
  • Translator