歷史銘言 Quotes History

2017-Aug-10
If you try to design something that's idiot-proof, the universe will design a better idiot.
-- Simon Birch, the conceptual artist in this interview

2016-Fec-04
念念不忘，必有迴響
--《一代宗師》

2016-Jan-09
絲蘿非獨生
-- 張紅拂

2015-Mar-31
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen, and thinking what no one has thought. 
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

2013-Feb-16
泥上偶然留指爪，鴻飛哪復計東西
-- 蘇軾

2012-Nov-25
Two of the most valuable things we have are time, and our relationships with others.
-- Candy Chang, TED 2012

2012-Nov-08

Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
-- Philo of Alexandria

2012-Jul-23

"Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?"

-- Theodore Sturgeon, The World Well Lost

2012-Jun-08
The scabbard is content to be dull when it protects the keenness of the sword.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

2012-Feb-26
對青豆而言肉體是人類的聖殿，不管要在那裡祭祀什麼，它都應該一塵不染、清潔美麗。
-- 村上春樹《1Q84》

2011-Nov-26
Go to the mattresses.
-- Godfather

2011-Oct-11
學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆
-- 《論語》為政

2011-Oct-01
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- from the movie Van Wilder

2011-Aug-14
Nostalgia is the denial of painful present.
-- Woody Allen from the movie Midnight in Paris


2011-Aug-13
If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.
如果你每天早上第一件事是要活吞一隻青蛙，那麼接下來的一天就沒有什麼事情更難的了。
-- old saying


2011-June-17
Carpe diem.
-- Ancient Latin


2011-May-14
Most small channels are not niche; they are simply small.
-- Sharp et al. Television: Back to the Future. Journal of Adversiting Research (2009) 49 (2) pp. 1-14

2011-Apr-24
I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.
-- Lady Gaga, the song Born This Way


2011-Apr-17
Well, it's not easy...being different.
-- Vianne, from movie Chocolat


2011-Apr-03
There is always time for plan B, but don't begin with it.
-- Drew G. Faust, baccalaureate to Havard University year of 2008


2011-Mar-25
Winter comes, you wish it was summer. Summer comes, you live in dread of winter. That's why we never tire of travel
-- 1900, from the movie The Legend of 1900


2011-Mar-02
Authenticity is never having to say you're sorry.
-- Simon Doonan, from the book The Shelby is in Your Place

2011-Jan-11
Just living is not enough
-- Hans Christian Anderson


2011-Jan-01

"Today is British traditional hangover day. So you must sit in bed and whine and eat take out and watch shit films about horses and then harry potter and curse the new year."

-- Lisa Dutton


2010-Dec-31
[木村拓哉] 恨んでもいい、許さなくてもいい、お前が欲しい
木村拓哉：恨我也無所謂，不原諒也無所謂，我只想要妳. (強抱入懷)
mizzly: ...果然人帥做什麼都不會被甩巴掌


2010-Dec-14
問別人“你的人生應該有更好的選擇吧”
就跟問同男“你怎麼不跟女生交往試試看”一樣，既無建設性又完全的無禮。
- sayu


2010-Dec-03

me: What do you mean by 'trash'?

Eva: You know, mainstream music.

2010-Oct-10

Good men are always dead, married, or gay.

(*we have this quotation in Mandarin, Thai, German, French, Español and Hindi. It must be something seriously true.)


2010-Sep-23

投之亡地然後存，置之死地而後生

--《孫子兵法 九地》


2010-Aug-12

我們不參加比賽，所以打籃球不求得分，但是要帥。

--DRE《葡萄酒大師 上》


2010-Jul-20

是故聰與敏，可恃而不可恃也

-- 彭端淑《為學一首示子侄》


2010-May-26

過去心不可得，現在心不可得，未來心不可得

-- 《金剛般若波羅蜜經》

2010-Apr-10

"天地不仁，聖人不仁"

-- 老子《道德經》


2010-Apr-5

"而今安在哉？"

2010-Mar-14

你的子女並不是你的，他們屬於生命本身

他們透過你來到這個世界上，但非由你而來；

子女是在生命中飛翔的箭，藉名為父母的弓送向遠方。

-- 紀伯倫


Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
-- Khalil Gibran


2010-Jan-15

對自己尊敬的人所說的話充耳不聞也是人生的一課

- sayu


2010-Jan-11

全力以赴的白痴比什麼都不做的白痴更令人感到絕望

- K

2009-Dec-05

なんとかなるさ

- K