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
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
