“The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says ‘Jackass’ on his back. There are three ways to lose points…”— Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, imdb.com
“I can't stand this, I wish I was dead, please kill me.”— Mark V. Olsen, Didi Ortley, Niecy Nash, imdb.com
“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“I think of how, in Czech, 'to paint' and 'to love' are only one vowel away: malovat; milovat. The salution alone is written. I paint you, I paint you, I paint you.”— Emily Wilson, thebohemyth.com
“The portion of evolution in which animals developed eyes was a big development. Now computers have eyes.”— Jeff Dean, nytimes.com
“Each form of transport not only carries, but translates and transforms the sender, the receiver, and the message. The use of any kind of medium or extension of man alters the patterns of interdependence among people, as it alters the ratios among our senses.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com