When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o 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
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version… — Ann Spangler Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started… — Sibel Edmonds 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'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
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are… — Miguel de Cervantes 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
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation. — Karin Tidbeck 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
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
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
