I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“The storm that batters the magnolia’s impermeable leaves, the long-drawn drum roll of Martian thunder with its hail ... lighting that makes… — Geoffrey Hill after Montale Copy Share Image
There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture,… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I want to see someone like Bobby 'The Brain' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated… — John Cena Copy Share Image
“(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.)” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a… — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. — Beck Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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