Language Quote by Anonymous

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

— Learned Hand

“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally…

— Anonymous

Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator…"I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on…

— Anonymous

“Magicians—that was what they were, the whole lot of them. Master manipulators trying to pull quarters out of her ears and orgasms from between…

— Anonymous

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.…

— John Donne

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are all mediators, translators.

— Jacques Derrida

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay…

— Mark Strand