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209 quotes by 192 authors

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. — Elia Kazan
It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly. — Kesha
I translated Beatles songs for my English class. — Christian Lacroix
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated,… — Hugh Laurie
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. — Naguib Mahfouz
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. — Marshall McLuhan
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that… — Conor Oberst
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating… — Henry David Thoreau
There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated… — Josh Turner
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. — Jeanette Winterson
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches'… — Martin Filler
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun… — Beryl Markham
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is… — Jeanette Winterson
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of… — Henry David Thoreau
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated — C.S. Lewis
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to… — Salman Rushdie

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