I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages;… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“ 'Translations,' Lateran said scornfully, examining the bruises along Kestrel's ribs. 'Like caressing your lover through a burlap sack. You get the… — L.S. Baird Copy Share Image
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently… — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
My real name isn't Gavin. I was given Gavin Friday by my friends. I'm christened Fionan Hanvey, which is Gaelic and there… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
![“I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da8/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_form_i-want-as-many-people-to-see-the-show-ha_3085482.jpg)