Quote and Monologue of the Month - December 2019
1. 我们都害怕死亡，并质疑自己在宇宙中的位置。艺术家的使命不是向绝望低头，而是找到一方解药，来对抗存在的虚无。
2. You know the only thing that made the whole thing worthwhile…has been those… few times that I’ve been able to really, truly connect with another human being.
3. We are made of dreams and dreams are made of us.
4. Funny, how just when you think life cannot possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
5. 你永远不晓得你有多么的喜欢一个人，除非你看见他和别人在一起。
6. - How did she die? - Saw herself in the mirror one day.
7. 东京那么大，如果不小心走散了，可能一辈子也见不到了。
8. I let the Devil in. Now I can’t get him out. I tried… burning him out and cutting him out. He don’t take no notice. Why should he? He don’t wanna be homeless.
9. I don’t have friends. I’ve just got one.
10. The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
11. 我们虽然笑着说了很多再见，但心里知道，可能后会无期。
12. 我们总是喜欢得不到的东西。但是人啊，总是要经历点什么，才会知道自己真正要的是什么。
13. If you look for it. I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.
14. Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
15. 朋友考试不及格，你感觉很糟；朋友考试考第一么，你感觉更糟。
16. 电影发明以后，人类的生命比起以前延长了至少三倍。
17. 他出现，又消失。一如日升日落，抑或任何转瞬即逝的事物，就像我们的生活。我们出现，然后我们又消失。我们对一些人而言是如此重要，但我们只是过客。
18. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called Present.
19. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
20. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. - Pablo Picasso
21. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
22. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding - John Updike
23. A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe - Le Corbusier
24. “Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than a memory.” — Jack London
25. ‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way’ — Viktor Frankl
26. Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens
27. The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. - Charles Dickens
28. “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” -Sydney J. Harris
29. “So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” – Nick Bilton
30. “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.” – Philip K. Dick
