Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful. — Anonymous 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
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 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 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 write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This… — Suzanne Ciani 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
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside… — Evan Kohlmann Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol 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
I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle 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