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384 Translate quotes by 331 unique authors

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of… — Gail Godwin
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself… — Theophile Gautier
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living… — Gustave Courbet
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. — Isaac Stern
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. — Pierre Bonnard
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. — Milton H. Erickson
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in… — David Milne
And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality… — Ed Rendell
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly… — Gerhard Richter
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. — Yann Martel
Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them. — Peace Pilgrim
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another. — Frederick Lenz
The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose… — Tove Styrke
To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and… — Chloe Sevigny
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected… — Steve Donoghue
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms… — Ouida
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. — Bill Vaughan
That's really good for an actor - to like the people behind the scenes - because then you treat the camera differently. If you really… — Emile Hirsch
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into… — Jim Fowler
Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all. — Megan Fox
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. — Theophile Gautier
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the… — Brian Greene
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true,… — Gail Collins

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