Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself. — John Hookham Frere Copy Share Image
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world. — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in… — Lynne Bowker Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The land mass on the other side, visible to the eye as a dark sliver on the horizon, would soon acquire its… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
“The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati , "mindfulness" or "awareness", and upaṭṭhāna , with the u of… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each… — Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I remember a conversation which we had once about translating. Hugo knew nothing about translating, but when he learnt that I was… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
