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384 Translate quotes by 331 unique authors

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes,… — Karl Kraus
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. — Horace
Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi… — Amy Tan
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically,… — Frank Ocean
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family… — Kofi Annan
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate… — Jean Pigozzi
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally… — Maurice Strong
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's… — Jennifer Weiner
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only… — Gerhard Richter
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he… — Betsy Lerner
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same… — Milton Avery
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience.… — Sue Monk Kidd
It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation. — Toyohiko Kagawa
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. — Robert Fitzgerald
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature… — Pratibha Patil
When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being… — Eric Jerome Dickey
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis

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