We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra 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
One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end… — Pharrell Williams 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
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
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new… — Ronald Harwood 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
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
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o 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 you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by… — Marguerite Yourcenar 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
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf 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 best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.” — Aubrey F.G. Bell 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
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
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
