Anna Leonowens Quotes
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I often don't read reviews.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
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Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable.
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The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
