Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. 在尝试写小说之前，我写了几个剧本。 -- James Merrill 詹姆斯·梅里尔
In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking. 在我的拖车里，我做自由举重，仰卧起坐和俯卧撑。我只是想保持苗条和活跃的样子。 -- Norman Reedus 诺曼·雷杜斯
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. 科学家梦想做伟大的事情。工程师做。 -- James A. Michener 米切纳
I pray thee then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men. 求你把我当作爱人的人来写。 -- Leigh Hunt 利·亨特
Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape. 交谈就像打网球，用疯狂的油灰做的球不断地以不同的形状回到网窝里。 -- David Lodge 大卫·洛奇
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. 诗歌、歌唱和语言有一个共同的起源。 -- Jean Philippe Rameau 拉莫
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit. 我最不喜欢的是与出版商打交道，他们根本不想合作，无论合作的价值如何。 -- Piers Anthony 皮尔斯·安东尼
Why do so many talented economic theorists believe and teach elegant fantasies so obviously refutable by plainly evident facts? 为什么有那么多才华横溢的经济学家相信并教授优雅的幻想，而这些幻想又如此明显地被显而易见的事实驳倒? -- James Tobin 詹姆斯·托宾
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. 永恒的现代化是衡量每一件艺术作品价值的标准。 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. 我想看到这些坏的、坏的、坏的、坏的人开始正视他们的人性。 -- James Ellroy 詹姆斯·艾尔罗伊