Translation Quote by Anonymous Download Open image “Translation is at best an echo.” — Anonymous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Translation
I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. — Iris Murdoch 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
For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge 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, but it… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
“The French expression 'cul-de-sac' describes what the Baudelaire orphans found when they reached the end of the dark hallway, and like all French expressions,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life. — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a well-oiled machine. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
“On Translating Eugene Onegin 1 What is translation? On a platter A poet's pale and glaring head, A parrot's screech, a monkey's chatter, And… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
