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
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 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
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so… — Tim Berners-Lee 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
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
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have many, many editions of the books, and they are all rather different. In the end, the one I used was… — Marina Warner 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
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
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try… — Taryn Simon 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
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
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
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 gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Language is an art, like brewing or baking… It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to… — Larry Gelbart 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
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis 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
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
