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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles… — Jasper Fforde
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… — Alberto Manguel
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. — Hermann Hesse
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or… — Jerzy Kosinski
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words… — Michael Ondaatje
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they… — Emily Giffin
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The… — E. M. Forster
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can… — Bertrand Russell
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. — Aimee Mann
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. — Arnold Bennett
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction… — Adrienne Rich
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a… — Desmond Tutu
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Sonya Sones
Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without… — Maggie Stiefvater
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into… — Frances Mayes
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation'… — Gordon Korman

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