Hardest Quote by Ann Goldstein Download Open image “It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.” — Ann Goldstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hardest Hardest thing Standards Translate
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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 thankless. All… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions. — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached.… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The hardest roads are often empty; the darkest paths are mostly silent; toughest destinations are almost peopleless! No easy road brings you great victory!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. — Billy West Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
