Paraphrase Quotes

• More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • The Lord

• The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Translations
  • Prettiest
  • Paraphrase

• I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • Wonder
  • Should
  • Increase

• To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Regret
  • Patriot
  • Fly-Fishing

• I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

  

  Luis Federico Leloir
  • Little
  • Received
  • Paraphrase

• I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

  

  David Dreman
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Paraphrase

• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Fire
  • Humans