17-12-07
230. Charlie Brown - Charles Schutz
Linus: "It's not a bad little tree. All it needs is a little love." (so cute!!!)
16-12-07
229. Victor Hugo
"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said."
Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)
My own translation (I search the original text, if you have it, please wave me): Comment arriva t-il que leurs lèvres se joignirent? Comment arrive t-il que l'oiseau chante, que la neige fonde, que la rose fleurisse, que l'aube blanchisse derrière les formes désolées des arbres sur le somment frémissant de la colline? Un baiser, et tout était dit."
15-12-07
228. Talleyrand
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838)
14-12-07
227. Joyce Brothers
"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." Joyce Brothers (born in 1929, Dr. Brothers is an American psychologist had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine for almost four decades)
13-12-07
226. Rita Mae Brown
One of my favourite quotes that touches as well my heart my soul and my brain, even if I don't like at all the topics of this writer's books.
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." Rita Mae Brown (American writer)
My very personal translation into french, which is also my personal way to understand this wonderful quote: "La créativité vient par la confiance. Fiez-vous à votre instinct. Et n'espérez jamais plus que ce que vous êtes en mesure de faire."
09-12-07
222. Victor Hugo
How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind does not listen. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885, French poet and writer)
C'est une triste chose de songer que la nature parle et que le genre humain n'écoute pas.
08-12-07
221. George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
George Eliot (alias Mary Anne Evans, English novelist, 1819-1880)
I greet my lovely main readers, mostly Grillon and Agnès.
04-12-07
219. My ongoing laziness
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
03-12-07
218. Witty will
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't". Henry Ward Beecher
"La différence entre persévérance et obstination est que l'un vient d'une forte volonté et l'autre d'un non" Traduction du jeu de mots will/won't impossible en français du fait qu'on a affaire ici à plusieurs sens mais ma foi mon petit "non" est assez sympa, même s'il ne fait pas miroir à volonté.
02-12-07
217. Oscar Wilde
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
Oscar Wilde
