Interpreter Quotes

101 quotes by 93 authors

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is… — Edward Said
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it,… — Monique Truong
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say â€œwe" with a certain… — Emile M. Cioran
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we… — Erma Bombeck
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to… — Sergei Lukyanenko
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact,… — John Maynard Keynes
The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were… — Jose Carreras
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few… — Clive Davis
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I… — Jhumpa Lahiri
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. — John Morley
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter. — Yiddish Proverb
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the… — Marcel Proust
An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted. — Claude Arrau
Everyone is the best interpreter of his own words. — Vikrant Parsai
Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew. — John Foster
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he… — Jhumpa Lahiri
God is the architect of the event; you are the interpreter of the moment. — Steve Maraboli

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