Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance. — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in… — Charlotte Ronson Copy Share Image
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection)… — Stephen Gilligan Copy Share Image
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I think aging is underrated. As you grow older, you have perspective and you realize just how fortunate you are to be… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me. — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image