“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
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass 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
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
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!] — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has… — Elliott Colla 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
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death,… — Ludwig Borne 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
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
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
