The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
If I say any word, like, "Sit next to me." There is a chemistry inside of my brain and your brain that… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others… — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep… — Tove Styrke Copy Share Image
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
