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
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis 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
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
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire 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
Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time In… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith 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
“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm 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
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
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