Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o 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
Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin 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
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson 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
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
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
