Language Quote by Brandt Legg Download Open image ““Kafka said, ‘All language is but a poor translation.”” — Brandt Legg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.” — Fraus-Dolus Copy Share Image
“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“We Russians cannot say anything in our own language ... At least we haven't yet.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Meditation is better than counseling. It keeps me sane in this crazy world.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“jogged through the trees was insanely intricate, and Grandyn believed what the woman had said; that he’d never find it alone. He just hoped… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“with Nelson’s connection to Cope, Chelle might have a better chance of convincing Munna to release the INUs so they could start running the… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Mutsu said, ‘Creativity can’t be coaxed, it is fragile and sometimes comes only when the world is ready; waiting until it is safe for… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.” Runit” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Just because anger or hate is present does not mean that the capacity to love & accept is not there; love is always with you.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Your time is up,” she said, punching buttons in the air. A woman walked into the Pacyfik Head’s office a moment later. “The deputy… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image