Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is… — Story Musgrave 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
Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary… — Billy Meier 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
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals… — Temple Grandin 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
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
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment… — Ken Liu 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
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon 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
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited,… — Elliott Colla 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 a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. — Lydia Davis 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
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that. — Charlie Flynn Copy Share Image
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
