Lydia Davis Quotes
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
Lydia Davis
Quotes to Explore
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
A.J. Styles
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Rachel Maddow
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Damon Runyon
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
K. Flay
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
Rachel Tucker
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster
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There is no price set on the lavish summer,And June may be had by the poorest comer.
James Russell Lowell
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.
Walt Disney
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Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
Nancy A. Collins
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
Ruston Kelly
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You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
Lydia Davis
