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Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. — Ernest Becker
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. — Voltaire
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.… — Joseph Campbell
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision… — Don DeLillo
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their… — Kiersten White
Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up… — Suzanne Collins
V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.… — Karen Marie Moning
We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids. — Karen Marie Moning
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story… — Hermann Hesse
The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the… — Gordon Korman
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the… — Mario Vargas Llosa
I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during… — Steve Rasnic Tem
The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was… — Paul Auster
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t… — Nora Roberts
I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's… — Cesar Millan
We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the… — David Levithan
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.… — Anne Carson
I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that… — Diana Gabaldon
Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in… — Suzanne Collins
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. — Octavio Paz
Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life. — Eoin Colfer
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument… — Barack Obama

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