When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

  • -- James Earl Jones 詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯

当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时,我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外,没有取得任何更大的成就。

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Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

嗯,我会说我有一种不可思议的幻想能力——我真的有。我不需要有看得见摸得着的东西,所以我喜欢很多东西,因为它们就在我的脑海里。

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

身心健康的秘诀不在于对过去的悲伤、对未来的担忧或对烦恼的预期,而在于明智而认真地活在当下。

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

科学一开始就不稳定。神话首先与“起初”发生的事情有关。它的签名是“从前”。

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

如果我以前没有读过一本书,无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的,无论从任何意义上说,对我来说都是新的。

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

如果你在读这篇文章……祝贺你,你还活着。如果这不是什么值得笑的事,那我不知道还有什么值得笑的。

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

语言和语言能力是上帝直接赐予的礼物。

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

如果这一切都发生在语言上,我害怕知道其他一切的命运。

Life is your ability to breath out every time you breathe in.

生活是你每次吸气时呼出的能力。

Keep your blood clean, your body lean and your mind sharp.

保持你的血液干净,你的身体苗条,你的思维敏捷。

Literature is the immortality of speech.

文学是不朽的语言。