Quotes
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at fourty-nin, what I now am.
Tu veux que je te fasse un freestyle?
C'est un peu comme le shit, ça relaxe
Il faut sortir du quartier
C'est la banlieue, c'est la cité, c'est un état dans l'état
Je suis un mauvais garçon et fier de l'être
Petty bourgeois deviation from Leninism
Sa vie, ses oeuvres
He sobbed on my shoulder: What are they doing with the party, they are turning it into a gutter.
We serve the revolution
Feliz Orgullo
Sprayed an a wall: Juventud combativa
Ex oriente lux
This beautiful Red Petrograd remains what it has been - the torch of revolution
Stories Consuelo: cuiden ustedes sus palabras
No soy un hombre comun
El acuerdo es de vivir en el pueblo de don Rodrigo
Agnostics Annonymous
When did you begin warming to the idea of ordination?
Lubię dostawać kwiaty
First among equals
Czuję się jakby ktoś mi zdjął rolki, jakbym wysiadł z auta na autostradzie, jakby każdy horyzont był nieosiągalny, utknąłem.
But, erm, in terms of education, things were a bit rocky for you.
My education, formal education, was somewhat in tatters.
Seguirem ocupant
Adesso, parla giusto.
The girls of the Highlands are all gentlewomen
Mówią, że Warszawa to Paryż wschodu
I had desired to visit the Hebrides
Voilà ce qui s'appelle un sentiment soudain
But enough about you
Już zarządzono we wszystkich kościołach śpiew 'Pod twoją obronę'
Dzieci, kto jest za wnioskiem, ten klęknie tu ze mną i zaśpiewa 'Serdeczna matko'
Niezwyciężony gracz w brydża
Computer consultant
Der Zaubergarten ist gefunden!
He said his name was Alf, but one couldn’t be sure, as he called me Alf, and everyone else.
Vivons bien, vivons heureux, vivons cachés
I am denied admittance to the casino of Monte Carlo
greatly informed by video games
Farm life isn't as safe as it's cranked up to be.
Should I buy a sextant and study celestial navigation?
urbanites who want to go back to the land
Je m'attache très facilement
T'en fais pas, p'tite tête, on est là
une fille issue de la bonne bourgeoisie catholique polonaise
dans une atmosphère de fin du monde
Dans une atmosphère de tranquilité, de confort et de bon goût
J'entends vivre tranquillement sur mes terres, loin de la cour et des affaires publiques, disait le Grand-Duc
J'ai pris un bus dans l'autre sens
I'm sorry, I don't understand long words
Plans for the Betterment of Man
L'alcool, c'est diabolique
Dzieci, zostawcie ojca, głowa go boli od czekolady. Otworzcie okno! Niech odetchnie chłodnym powietrzem
Ça, j'en ai déjà mangé, à Marseille, au service militaire
I once fell in love in Santiago
The hapless pilgrim
Balanç de la Mar
Plans were laid to evacuate the Royal Family and the Bank of England's gold to Canada
All our so-called civilisation is covered with a varnish.
In the end they chartered a very old thirteen-knot merchantman, but not before General ‘Pug’ Ismay had suggested they go by bicycle.
Na wygląd trzeba sobie zapracować.
He soon regretted it when the King, displaying all his heavy Hanoverian drollness, pointed to every shack and cow-shed along the way, asking, ‘Is that where you were born, Edward?’, until the butt of his constantly reiterated joke found it hard to continue his courtly laughter.
je suis charmé de cette fraîcheur de sentiments
Bientôt je vais lancer ma société, je fais ma vie, eh? Pas besoin de mes parents
A gaunt philosophy Ph.D. wrapped in a thick knitted cardigan was pacing in front of a whiteboard covered in notation, which he attacked in bursts.
Ich danke Gott an jedem Morgen,
daß ich nicht brauch’
für’s Röm’sche Reich zu sorgen!
la humilitat dels dies de pa escàs
filla, com jo, del poble
You must remember I am a transhumanist: I want my life extension pill now
Més avant, altre dia, potser quan m’haja mort.
Pet of the smart set
Qu’advient-il d’un communiste après sa mort?
L’ofici de demà
Are workers ever allowed to go on holiday?
Or are recreational resorts solely for the bourgeoisie?
Ne me cherchez pas: je suis introuvable.
Pour mes études, maintenant, c'est trop tard parce que j'y ai Renoncé.
Mais dans la colline, où c'est que tu vas chercher ta vie?
Una cosa non accetto.
Il mio ritorno là.
Il privilegio della presenza –
ci rinuncio.
Come vivere? – mi ha scritto qualcuno,
a cui io intendevo fare
la stessa domanda.
si riposi, faccia un viaggio,
Aquest nou amor fa oblidar els mals passats
s’enamorà sent l’autor ja vell
l’enyorança d’èpoques anteriors en les quals ell amava desesperadament
EL meu ofici és l’alegria,
siga de nit, siga de dia.
Jo no sé res de tu. Han passat segles, dies.
Inútilment recórrec València.
It is hard to spend time at Bostrom’s institute without drifting into reveries of a far future
Lo temps novèl
Abendkleidung
I say goodbye without hand-thrusting
For so demands the local custom
Inherited her mother's beauty and temper
I had a farm in Africa
Ma jeuneusse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage
My list of accomplishments is startling, I write, I act, I sing, I dance, I play tragedy, comedy, magical realism
Every thug needs a lady
The French are always there when they need you
He's good in a certain way - he's a nutjob. And every time I had to deal with a country and they saw this whackjob standing behind me they said oh man Trump's gonna go to war with us
Uniquement les meilleures années
Kissenger voice: if you could convey that we are not particularly amused
https://youtu.be/ocYvwiSYDTA?si=CE7dNn9Biv6gjUqK
Has found himself in dispute with leading theologians
This time there will be no more Mr Nice Guy
the lyrics of songs functioning as a Greek chorus
born-again Christian
Après moi, le déluge.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes
κλεοσ
what the hell would a college broad want with a guy like me
and you're suddenly a back-up dancer in a concert that shouldn't exist
Where sailors gang to fish for Cod
Everyone had a goatee and drank a lot of coffee
Muckle gear
Lasciata la scuola di retorica, come tutti i giovani di buona famiglia, andò ad Atene
I never hear the word escape
without a quicker blood
a sudden expectation
a flying attitude.
In those days there was no cinema. People went home or to the shop.
Brought up and educated in Paris
Cara już od dwóch lat nie ma na tym świecie, a pod Warszawę nadciąga armia największych ponoć w świecie gołodupców.
Kind der Aufklärung
Son désir d'assurer la grandeur future de sa maison
The mysterious young man I then was
I would like to seal our pact with a kiss, but we shall have to postpone that.
Karriere oder Jakobsweg?
Ein neues Leben auf dem Jakobsweg
Il n'y a pas de vaccin contre les idiots
My duties to Church and family I began to neglect. The idea of my machine and the creating of it ate into my heart and brain.
I've seen the future, and it works.
Donde fuiste feliz alguna vez
No deberias volver jamas
El tiempo habra hecho sus destrozos
voyage au cours duquel nous mettons en doute les conventions du monde ordinaire pour nous aventurer vers une destination inconnue
Trouver du refuge dans les valeurs sûrs
Even after their marriages he instructed his daughters-in-law to call him Lord Halifax
All you who follow wealth & power with unremitting ardor
Some times by foes I was o’erpower’d, sometimes by friends forsaken
My mama didn't raise no fool
Que esto ya conoces en mi, que suelo caer con facilidad
Nous sommes tous des étrangers
Paradis petit-bourgeois
A strange mix of tough-talking Boston and scholarly Princeton
In an attempt to épater la bourgeoisie
Professors in New England guard
The glories that were Greece
Always have your bags packed
Aquele babaca
The inmates are running the asylum
Amici in vita e in morte
A friend of the rich, famous and influential
The best capuccino west of Rome
An advisor to the Prince and Prime Minister
His belief in the therapy of wilderness and solitude
I became establishment
Make a citizen's arrest
Yees, I don't know really, I haven't analysed it - mum.
You're very bad, aren't you ducky, you're pretty but you're bad
A kind of Cary Grant de nos jours
A curious cross between tigger and Lord Byron
Will you be attempting to escape from our island to come back and fight the good socialist fight?
Que duerme tranquila la ciudadania
Un pelegrino desorientado
Dowodzi szturmem na Kadyks
Look on our Works, ye Mighty!
-He looks handsome in that suit, doesn’t he?
-Fitting for a man of such dark thoughts.
Ti non seras ese?
Tiene grabados en su rostro todos los vientos de Trás-os-Montes
Duelling with infinity
He had moved across the Atlantic to Princeton where he himself was now a professor
Alguna ex tendras en el carcel
Soy una genio despistado, no me acuerdo de nada
No se habrá hecho comunista usted?
Está lá sempre a saudade
C'est un autre genre de vie qu'on mène à Tansonville, chez Madame de Saint-loup
I am quite determined that you are to be Prime Minister and reunite England to the Holy See
Tous les hommes me sont, à tel point, odieux,
Que je serais fâché d'être sage à ses yeux
Ce chagrin philosophe est un peu trop sauvage
Yo soy un poco esteticien de la vida
Many are called but few are chosen
The destruction of the company could be consistent with the board’s mission.
La balle qui me tuera n'est pas encore fondue
Le Cerf Agile avait bien raison: les Visages Pâles ont la langue double
Szukam partnerki o zapachu Chanell chance
Fugitives and outlaws
... And it's bulletproof if you do need to survive a shootout.
ludzie, którzy mają wszystko
Pani Irenka znikła na Rzeszowszczyźnie
...tiny, invisible changes in images cause the object recognisers to completely change their minds - what was a school bus, you change some pixels invisibly on the image and now it says it's an ostrich. In fact you can change any object into an ostrich by making invisible changes to the image. So, this should worry us. Rather than just saying 'Oh, that's peculiar' and just carrying on, this should worry us.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face
Detecto muy facilmente un hijo de puta
Das wäre echt eine Chance für unsere Firma.
Last time we met in Fiesole
Estaba en punto de dejar la carrera...
(Alpujarra) Una meta - superada
My next book, "El viento de la Alpujarra"
World-reknown mathematician, physicist and philosopher of science
Alacant no volia ser "València"
Puis, après una pause, il ajouta par ruse: Mon père est un marchand
guarantees of Lukashenko
Parenting for the Twenty-First century
No mundo tão veloz
A nossa realidade é ambigua
Freelance poet and traveller
poussant jusqu'à la plus extrême délicatesse, en matière mondaine, la modestie et la discrétion
The most famous and at the same time the most unknown person in the world
Totum revolutum
The Gobi desert dunes, belatedly studied, would be revealed to be untraversable.
a priesthood of all believers
Ha sentit la necessitat de compartir el seu pensament
What, you haven't been arrested yet?
He’s a street fighter, but with monogrammed French cuffs
Muy amigo de mis amigos
Master's right hand
Parmis les privés et les fidèles
everyone had a gotee and drank a lot of coffee
Bildungsroman
son cosas del querer
it's the Rebel Alliance
Gotta be ready to be lucky.
Mi juventud empezó en España
Better to seek forgiveness than permission
If you were going to take a ragtag group of people and seize power in a tzarist empire during a war that destroyed the old order - he would be your guy
A man of tremendous willpower, energy, zealotry and tactical flexibility
All'apice dello splendore
I have a thing for the weak.
Tu crees que el pobre es pobre porque quiere?
Como hombre progresista
ninja dust
You don't fuck with tradition.
I ty, co mieszkasz dziś w pałacu
A srać chodziłeś pod chałupę,
A srać chodziłeś pod chałupę,
I carefully scanned the weather reports, since I had to cross a high mountain
pass
Solo è il coraggio
Mr Peine, hay el flow?
it’s not as though you're going naked into battle
yo he sido campeon de dos discotecas en Barcelona
imprese grandi realizzate dai Greci come dai barbari
emergency envoy and problem solver for the White House
clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating
Song uttered by Myrddin in the grave
mais experiente e hâbil de todos os cavaleiros de Franca
Agent of chaos
Now 27, he rises before dawn to make
cheesecakes, tarts, biscotti, tiramisù.
in-house pastry chef
peste, guerra, impostos, banditismo, mau governo, insurreição e cisma na Igreja
Su pelea hasta el final con la pintura, el exilio, los paises que ha conocido y el encuentro con amigos algunos, grandes intelectuales de su tiempo
yo naci en una epoca totlmente equivocada, por favor llevadme a los anos 60 quando no habia internet y no habia tantas... obsesiones y... tantas mierdas
yo soy muy de jijijaja
Gifts are an expression of feeling.
I stand against the zeitgeist
Album: Back to Bran
Un mundo paralelo, feliz, aparte
Jambon Beurre
Generosity implies power
Chacun ses contradictions
Part memoir, and part manifesto
The only arrow I have in my quiver
El origen de los vascos es desconocido
Sa legende d'homme du monde européen
Just before the fall of the empire
La alma prende fuego cuando deja de amar
the plan is in motion
non sequitur
Zugzwang
Dulcius Ex Asperis
thank you for your candour
it was with great concern that i received your correspondence
an unfortunate side effect of my work as a truth seeker is a tendency to attract bad actors
people seeking to deceive me for their own nefarious ends
my initial response to your missive was to suspect you're not in fact general counsel at the sleep group and that your name was simply an anagram for whatever sinister agent who might wish to keep secret the reasons Macdonald's stopped serving pizza
in this age of corporate media it is an unfortunate truth that journalists such as myself often have to accept patronage wherever offered
Músico, cantante, persigo un sueño.
Alpha dog or lone wolf?
Sonic gentrification
Pushing back against the status quo
una cabra loca
I fear for the future of royalty
...in his office, at the university of Oxford.
He kept sending me cheerful updates about his newest attempts to fix quantum mechanics.
I've had something of a panic-stricken day
You do look like you've given up on life
I tell you what, though, I do love, particularly when the season turns, a garment that says: hi, I'm here for you
éminence grise
Sinister agents and bad actors
Up against heavy fire
Going to mount doom
One-man party machine
The seeds of my sorrow were sown.
He went on with a mad scholar's quiet smile
Destroy and forget
Such language ... had never been heard west of Constantinople.
A man's got to know his limitations
Reason not the need.
facetious bizarrerie
grief-stricken fugitive in the forest of Calidon [who eventually recovers sanity and decides to end his days in spiritual exercises and contemplation in the woods].
Wunderwaffe
People who are sharper, better educated, have read more books - who the fuck do they think they are?
pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall
...los ángeles caídos; igual que él como cantante se ha desviado del "camino de dios" que en el siglo 21 sería pues... ir al colegio, ir al instituto, ir a la unversidad, sacas una carrera, buscas un trabajo y luego tener una hipoteca, yo que sé.
where tragedy was always sprinkled
with a beneficial lesson;
and I endeavour to be droll
A mi lo que me preocupa es la gente que se gasta una pasta en hacer una reforma de su casa - que es una mierda.
aquí te pillo aquí te mato
estoy llorando el la limo
you would be mocked, proclaimed an idiot
I wrote a 1 000 page book about Hegel, no one pays attention.
You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver
this “new form of asceticism” is, she promises, the “path to the good life”
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
I was broken, beyond repair
once-loyal supporters are now abandoning him
¿Ya no quieres nada con los pobres?
Die Akademie des Meisters Klex
un amigo y mediopariente
don Borrón con su trompeta amplificadora amplió una araña al tamaño del gato
for all those global audiences who have not yet been introduced to Jan Brzechwa's classic trilogy of novels featuring Professor Ambrose Inkblot
Una droga que nos da vida
Ya me veo otra vez con la mochila
memories of a misspent youth
Yo, señor, soy un pobre pelegrino, de vuelta de Compostela...
Donde nace arco-iris.
Cerré los ojos y adelante.
Paisajes perdidos, añorados, paisajes de otras vidas
You can put it on an imagine you're about to die, ha ha. [plays Lacrimosa]
odżywiasz się źle
odziewasz nędznie
There was this one night when I'd gotten home from work and I was maybe cooking dinner and he was like, hey, you know, I think I've accidentaly joined, like, this, you know, cult.
There's always someone camper, younger, with bigger teeth coming round the corner...
- You'd got into law wanting a proper job, you know, wanting that kind of stability that you saw your brothers have...
- Funnily enough, I was living in a homeless hostel at the time, doing me work, and going back to me homeless hostel...
L'imperieuse nécessité de ce voyage, la femme à retrouver, la police à fuir, une justice à rétablir.
Your methods are a bit on the rough side.
Najsmutniej jest wyjechać z domu jesiennym rankiem
Maybe prison is the ultimate club for people like me.
Aux cœurs blessés comme l’est le mien, un romancier que vous lirez plus tard prétend que conviennent seulement l’ombre et le silence.
Work is more fun than fun
le péché sans rémission, le snobisme
O niezbyt jasne myśli kiedy stoję z rękami w kieszeniach
Sophistication is not a moral quality, nor is it (unless one is mad) a criterion by which one would choose one’s friends.
That’s a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
She went to the supermarket in mink
(wszelkie prawa zastrzelone)
tych, co gotowi zawsze otworzyć list cudzego ciała, rozciąć kopertę skóry i złamać szyfr kości;
Ta dłoń może być garścią i może być pięścią
Guide, philosopher, and friend
I'm not much of a ladies' man, but on this particular morning it seemed to me that what I really wanted was some charming girl to buzz up and ask me to save her from assassins or something.
lying in bed eating candy, mooning around
It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or indeed, abandoned
Ci, którzy jedzą grzanki, będą jeść suchary
Christians, with their particular invisible friends
mine is a wasted life
Westland Wapiti
bête noire
penned a witty autobiography, Have A Banana
pioneer flights deep into the far north
He may be down, but he is never out
Nakreśliłaś obraz tych synów ognia godny twego miałkiego umysłu.
He had a system for doing the garlic.
Per avere giustizia dobbiamo andare in ginocchio da Don Corleone
Don Vito Corleone, non dimenticava mai i vecchi amici
the improved Cheetah engines
experimental Model 720 jet fighters
curbing extravagance and promoting thrift
if people could be made to save money, the King could obtain it when necessary
Few saved, many damned
Ye nobles are like ravening wolves
when pilgrims took to sea for the voyage to Compostella or beyond, “Theyr hertes begin to fayle
small children; “wollygogs” he called them
he once proclaimed a proof for God’s existence "is the existence of Lenin and Trotsky, for whom a hell is needed"
And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forward to the rescue and the liberation of the old
“We must be careful not to bomb the Pope,” Churchill told Colville, because “he has a lot of influential friends.”
très longtemps, de nombreuses années avant que l’aviateur Latham, qui s’était abîmé au beau milieu de la Manche, soit juché, comprends-tu, sur la queue de libellule de son Antoinette qui sombrait, et fume en plein vent une cigarette jaunie tout en regardant, loin lá—haut dans le ciel, son rival Blériot dans sa petite machine aux ailes étriquées voler pour la première fois de Calais aux rivages de sucre de l’Angleterre.
Look thy last on all things lovely
log fires, which he liked to prod with an iron poker, in silence and for long periods of time
so calling Major Copland and Stan Day [adjutant of ‘No. 2’ Commando] into a confab by a railway truck, I decided to break inland with the idea of making for Spain
A man of few words, he was nicknamed “Sunshine” by his men
die Zeit nicht für alle gleich schnell vergeht
cette chose si rare, du bon thé
That morning a British reconnaissance patrol stumbled across a similar patrol from Patton’s II Corps. “This is certainly a pleasant surprise,” offered Sergeant Bill Brown, from Devon. “Well, it’s good to see somebody besides a Nazi,” replied Private Perry Pearce of Kentucky.
leurs mères, quand ils étaient tout petits, les avaient élevés dans le même berceau, comme on le fait des enfants que l’on destine à être un jour maris et femmes
Von Neumann Takes the Hint
lui faisait sentir qu’il menait la vie des hommes qui ont une affaire amoureuse dans leur existence, et en qui le sacrifice qu’ils font de leur repos et de leurs intérêts à une rêverie voluptueuse fait naître un charme intérieur
les inspirations de sa jeunesse qu’une vie frivole avait dissipées, mais elles portaient toutes le reflet, la marque d’un être particulier ; et, dans les longues heures qu’il prenait maintenant un plaisir délicat à passer chez lui, seul avec son âme en convalescence, il redevenait peu à peu lui-même
Calling to you to bathe, Messire, And steam yourself without delay. Our water’s hot and that’s no lie
unbekannter Ritter
When he talked about love, it was always in the past tense, as a farcical calamity that had befallen him
la découverte progressive qu’ils faisaient de sa brillante situation mondaine
Though he is a person to whom things do not happen, perhaps they may when he is on the other side.
a childlike attraction to the aesthetics of poshness, like wearing a bow-tie to eat trifle
Mend your errant ways.
Non si pasce di cibo mortale, chi si pasce di cibo celeste.
Be ye never so high, the law is above you.
L'estrema periferia
Так как я знаю, что за тобою, как за всяким, водятся грешки...
Young fella me bear!
Ratunkiem, a nie raną cięcie się okaże;
W tym początku jest koniec; jest nagroda w karze.
A każda z nich przewierca
Boleśnie tkankę serca
Lecz każdy z nas, gdy w głębie swego serca sięga,
Widzi Boga innego, niż tego chce Księga.
A znalazłszy jedną drogą perłę, poszedł i sprzedał wszystko, co miał, i kupił ją.
I będę płakać i obmyślać zemstę
Wiedząc o szczęściu, że jedynie
W tej istnieje krainie,
Która jest obca i daleka.
Po siedmiu latach obłędnych urojeń,
W których brał siebie za nędznego chama
By rozgrzać chłód mej miłości
a troubled soul
Lecz były widoczne
Jego postępki mroczne
Such bitter business
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
Dieta jest istotą filozofii
Zamiast myśleć o zbawieniu duszy czytałem gazety
Żal mi „wielkich” (tego świata) że nie mogą nikogo ugodzić pomidorem że nie mogą gówniarza złapać za ucho
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
Sprinkle cool patience.
Repent what’s past. Avoid what is to come.
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard
You must translate. (=explain)
Comme cela doit être amusant de bouquiner, de fourrer son nez dans de vieux papiers
Pareggiati in questo modo i loro conti, si strinsero la mano e giurarono di rimanere buoni amici per tutta la vita.
Don’t look forward to variety, but you’ll have excellence.
Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough to try it on, for love or money.
I was falling into meditation on my guardian’s greatness
si pareille chose était arrivée à Paris, vous vous en repentiriez tout de suite, tandis qu'ici vous ne vous en repentirez que plus tard.
To complete the illusion, he put on a hat, although he practically never wore one.
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