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209 quotes by 192 authors

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you. — Christopher Moore
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. — Walter Benjamin
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") — Miguel de Unamuno
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… — Edith Wharton
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant… — Amy Tan
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might… — Silas House
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look… — Maggie Stiefvater
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,… — Christopher Isherwood
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths"… — Charles Spurgeon
Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be.… — Robert Fulghum
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted,… — Javier MarÃas
Sheâ€™s wonderful. Tell her Iâ€™ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.â€ Waddington, smiling, translated the question. â€œShe says Iâ€™m… — W. Somerset Maugham
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at… — Rachel Caine

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