Translating Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed… — Paul Auster
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of… — Paul Auster
Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral… — Annie Besant
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned… — Hugo Black
This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going… — Svetlana Khorkina
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the… — Albert Einstein
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... — Balthus
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest,… — Grenville Kleiser
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,… — Christine Schutt
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. — Terry Tempest Williams
Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what… — Marc Hauser
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating… — Harold Bloom
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might… — Marshall McLuhan
The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet… — Jimmy Cornell
We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc. The missing area… — Judith Curry

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