Lost Quote by Aimee Mann

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a…

— Don DeLillo

I always say that at some times you can lose perspective.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

— Tom Stoppard

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

— Till Lindemann

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

— Kesha

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

— Waheeda Rehman

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

— Gates McFadden

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,…

— Salman Rushdie