Erich Segal Quotes

The magic gets lost in translation.

Translation is the art of failure.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

A relationship isn't just about space; it's about emotion and heart and all those good things.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.