I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds. — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent. — John Arlott Copy Share Image
The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds… — Jimmy Cornell Copy Share Image
All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily… — David Katz Copy Share Image
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into… — Dana Scott Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life. — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
