How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill 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
...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
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos 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
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker 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
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
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli 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 know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz 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
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she… — Deborah Smith 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
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
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
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