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
Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday, the Bible in translation is being read to… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside… — Evan Kohlmann Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
With action in Hollywood, a choreographer will be hired to design an amazing fight, with all these cool little narrative bits, such… — Joey Ansah Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini 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
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure… — Avery Sunshine Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini 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
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett 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
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
