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“越過山丘才發現無人等候”的意思，不是因為沒人迎接而失落，他的意思是說，你們不是覺得我們老了，你們年輕嗎？我站山頂上了，我也沒瞧見你們呀。

導演 馮小剛

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

當你發現眼前一片黑暗時，你該知道，那是你自己在發光。

小米 CEO 雷軍

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

有人曾問我，如果生命滿是歡樂，你愛它，如果生命只是平淡，你也愛它，但倘若生命是接踵而來的不幸呢？那天，我沒有回答，我沉默很久，說不出一句話。今天，我卻想說，我依舊愛它。因為，那是屬于我的。

田維《花田半畝》

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

有一種寂寞，不是靠戀愛可以解決的，不是靠養小孩可以解決的。那是一種“念天地之悠悠”的寂寞。閱讀，也不能排除這種寂寞，但可以讓我理解這種寂寞、讓我安心地接受這種寂寞是跟我的靈魂共始共終的。

蔡康永《LA流浪記》

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

要過那條馬路并不難，就看誰在對面等你。

導演 王家衛

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

太陽太強烈，會把五谷曬焦；雨水太猛，也會淹死莊稼。我們只求心理相對平衡，不至于受傷而已。

翻譯家 傅雷