Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  • -- John Lubbock 卢伯克

休息不是懒惰,夏天有时躺在树下的草地上,听着潺潺的流水声,或看着云朵飘过天空,这绝不是浪费时间。

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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

鉴于对一般人的任何程度的乐观和宽宏大量,对创造性思考或参与创作的人数设置时限是不可能的。

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

在电视上,人们先看你的头发,然后看你的皮肤,然后看你的衣服,当他们听到你在说什么时,你已经离开屏幕了。

Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

天堂,n。诗歌在那里,恶人不再以谈论他们的私事来烦扰你;在你阐述自己的事情时,好人侧耳倾听。

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

有一件事经常让我对烹饪书感到沮丧,那就是有一两个食谱真的很好,其他的都不怎么好。

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

为了让我们其他人更加珍惜生命,总得有人死去。

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

女人喜欢沉默的男人。他们认为自己在倾听。