Quotes of: Paraphrase Keyword

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

W.H. Auden

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!

To Dance with Ugly People

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Fragments

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Jason Calacanis

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

Chester Elijah Branch

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Albert Einstein

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Walter Koenig

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Mary Steenburgen

Not the slow Hearse, where nod the sable plumes,      The Parian Statue, bending o'er the Urn,      The dark robe floating, the dejection worn      On the dropt eye, and lip no smile illumes; Not all this pomp of sorrow, that presumes  �...

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Regarding the Pain of Others

To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.

A Very Good Life

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Regarding the Pain of Others

If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas Henry Huxley

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Mark Galli

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Ronald Reagan

When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail How soothing! never can her warm tears fail To balm our bleeding grief's sever...

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace