Quotes

Quotes

“ When Jonathan Lee,the 58-year-old Taiwanese singer,sung“Having conquered the mountain,only to find there’s nobody waiting,”he was not dismayed by others’negligence.What he actually meant was,“Don’t you guys think we are too old while you are still young?I’m already on the top of the mountain but you are nowhere to be seen.”

—Feng Xiaogang,film director

李宗盛唱“越过山丘才发现无人等候”的意思，不是因为没人迎接而失落，他的意思是说，你们不是觉得我们老了，你们年轻吗？我站山顶上了，我也没瞧见你们呀。

导演 冯小刚

When you find the world too dark,you should know,it is because from you that all the light comes.

—Lei Jun,CEO of Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co.,Ltd

当你发现眼前一片黑暗时，你该知道，那是你自己在发光。

小米 CEO 雷军

Someone once asked:“Should life be full of joy,you would love it;should it be dull and plain,you would love it still.But what if it should comprise of only misfortunes in a row?”That day,I did not answer.Silence took the reign.But today,I want to say:“Yes,I would love it no matter what,”because it is the very life of my own.

—Tian Wei,A Half-Acre Flower Garden

有人曾问我，如果生命满是欢乐，你爱它，如果生命只是平淡，你也爱它，但倘若生命是接踵而来的不幸呢？那天，我没有回答，我沉默很久，说不出一句话。今天，我却想说，我依旧爱它。因为，那是属于我的。

田维《花田半亩》

There’s a kind of loneliness that can’t be expelled by falling in love or by raising a child. It floods in when you are encountered with the vastness of the universe.Reading is not of much help.It enables me,though,to understand that feeling and to embrace the fact that it is inseparable from my soul.

—Kevin Tsai,LA Wandering Mind

有一种寂寞，不是靠恋爱可以解决的，不是靠养小孩可以解决的。那是一种“念天地之悠悠”的寂寞。阅读，也不能排除这种寂寞，但可以让我理解这种寂寞、让我安心地接受这种寂寞是跟我的灵魂共始共终的。

蔡康永《LA流浪记》

It’s not difficult to cross the road as long as the right person is waiting on the other side.

—Wong Kar-Wai,film director

要过那条马路并不难，就看谁在对面等你。

导演 王家卫

When the sun shines too bright it burns the grain;when the rain is too heavy it floods the crops.All we hope for is inner peace that can keep us from getting hurt.

—Fu Lei,translator

太阳太强烈，会把五谷晒焦；雨水太猛，也会淹死庄稼。我们只求心理相对平衡，不至于受伤而已。

翻译家 傅雷