Manuel Puig The translator’s task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That’s hard! – Manuel Puig Appearing Quotes Create Quotes Hard Quotes Language Quotes Original Quotes Task Quotes Tensions Quotes Translators Quotes The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. I’m not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I’m around, and what the dynamic in the situation is. – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Dean Bakopoulos People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch. – Dean Bakopoulos
Bill Bruford We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. – Bill Bruford
Mo Ibrahim When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law. – Mo Ibrahim
Imran Tahir Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners. – Imran Tahir
Add comment