Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice …
Quote for Today: Peter Carey
It is clear that she had the seed planted, not once, but twice, and knew already the lovely contradictory nature of glass and she did not have to be told, …
Quote for Today: Coco Chanel
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ―Coco Chanel Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Vilayanur Ramachandran
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an …
Quote for Today: Hugh Laurie
People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. …
Quote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. –Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Public …
Quote for Today: Vironika Tugaleva
Sometimes love doesn’t look like what we think it should look like. Sometimes it’s paradoxical. Sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we have to be …
Quote for Today: Nick Hornby
All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
“I live alone,” he said simply. “I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With …