Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson 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
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara 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
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is-… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of… — El-P Copy Share Image
I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
