The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) — Blaise Pascal 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
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a… — Emmanuelle Bercot Copy Share Image
I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation,… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli 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
Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a collection of stories and myths based on hearsay transmitted from generation to generation and which were recorded by… — Brian Baker 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
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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