[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

[http://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Master Sheng-Yen]

She is like a portrait by Modigliani where the various distortions are not only interesting in themselves but make a completely satisfying composite.

?I went to high school while I was homeless, (I) received dental care, hot meals, counselling … I was helped so much in my journey that at some point, it clicked for me,” she explained. “I quickly came to realize that a lot of people were also struggling.”

[http://www.chinesetolearn.com/lu-xuns-life-literary-work-and-quotes/ Lu Xun's quotes in Chinese original, pinyin, and English translation] at chinesetolearn.com

Lizzie Freeman (Anime English Dub)

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

[http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm G8INA's Full Lin Yutang English bibliography] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103044245/http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm Internet Archive copy] instead

[On joining the Radical Party] I joined not so much out of organic membership, but in response to a plea from the Radical Party, which was struggling to survive. I did it out of gratitude. I didn't vote for them; I was a socialist. I did it so that a party that had brought divorce and abortion to Italians wouldn't die.

People have to take responsibility for their own lives, and if they are struggling but working hard to help themselves then they should get help. But if they choose to have 10 kids they should take responsibility for that choice and look after them, not expect everyone else to foot the bill!

In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twelve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.

?Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend” [http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/05/31/paul-scholes-top-quotes-on-a-top-player/]

[https://www.naomiosaka.com/ Official website] in (English and Japanese)