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
I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson 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
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have… — Rafael Cruz 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
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a… — Okakura Kakuzo 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 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
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have… — Tammara Webber 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
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud 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
I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense… — Zach Condon 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
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
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