When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Apparently in Los Algadones, when they say Massage they don't mean.. a professional Massage... Oh no... we only do massage with happy… — Rose Etheridge Copy Share Image
“Toda traducción es mejorable cuando no la has hecho tú, sino otro traductor.” — Kseniya Tokareva Copy Share Image
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Like 'Lost in Translation,' I worked on an advertisement where a Hollywood star was doing a commercial just for Japan. The star… — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Dreams, always dreams! and the more ambitious and delicate is the soul, the more its dreams bear it away from possibility. Each… — Aleister Crowley Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of… — Edith Grossman Copy Share Image
The translation of social media buzz does not really happen. Films do well through word of mouth. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in… — Sophocles Carson Anne Copy Share Image
“Death is only a translation of life into another language.” — Francis Marion Crawford 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
“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at… — Olivia Sudjic 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
“I remember a conversation which we had once about translating. Hugo knew nothing about translating, but when he learnt that I was… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
