Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  • -- William Wordsworth 威廉·华兹华斯

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

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If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

如果我雇佣的都是蛋糕装饰师,我们的蛋糕看起来就会像人们装饰的蛋糕。我们在魅力城市蛋糕公司做着令人惊叹的工作,要做到这一点,你需要用令人惊叹的方式思考的人。艺术家只是用不同的方式思考。

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

每一项伟大的工作,每一项伟大的成就,都是通过坚持理想而实现的,往往就在取得伟大成就之前,就会出现明显的失败和挫折。

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

乡村音乐打破了表演者和观众之间的隔阂。这是有联系的,因为这么多的歌曲创作,都有一种脆弱,一种忏悔的特质。那些歌词让你陶醉。

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

我们确实想要更多,当它变得更多时,我们还会想要更多。我们永远不会停止要求更多,直到我们收到我们的劳动成果。

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

在我们所有的大众传播发明中,图片仍然是最普遍理解的语言。

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

当我创作艺术时,我想到它与他人联系的能力,把他们带入这个过程。

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

装饰你的家。它给人一种错觉,认为你的生活比实际生活更有趣。

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

智慧常常不会到来,所以我们不应该仅仅因为它来得晚而拒绝它。

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

老朋友的好处之一就是你可以和他们一起做傻事。

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

在交谈中,幽默比机智更有价值,轻松比知识更有价值。

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

当蜡烛比蛋糕贵的时候,你就知道自己老了。

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

我们的房子越开明,它们的墙壁就越会渗出鬼魂。