Interpreter Quotes

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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them… — Allan Bloom
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… — Wendell Phillips
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many… — Bill Moyers
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. — Socrates
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret… — Hugh Reginald Haweis
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new… — Robert Fisk
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired… — Jay Leno
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. — William Cowper
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see… — Robert Holden
Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and… — Gary North
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic… — Hartley Coleridge
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. — George Eliot
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. — Tim Berners-Lee
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the… — Vivien Leigh
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — John Locke
When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it… — Mandy Patinkin
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs,… — Diana Ross
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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