I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of… — El-P Copy Share Image
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.” — Aubrey F.G. Bell Copy Share Image
“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
![“He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge…” quote by John Derbyshire](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1bf/john-derbyshire-20276_astonishing_he-mencken-was-an-autodidact-with-all-th_1844312.png)
![“[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.” quote by Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/01e/gottfried-leibniz-3585_amphibians_alternate-translation-the-divine-spirit_1191818.jpg)
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