Translating Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

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
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
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 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
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great… — Ben Brantley
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image,… — Joe Meno
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself… — Theophile Gautier
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the… — Brian Greene
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. — Ang Lee
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new… — Danica McKellar
I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so… — Yoko Ono
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
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 learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justinianoâ€™s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the… — Mario Vargas Llosa
The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasnÂ´t really anyone, and I wasnÂ´t really alive. I was… — Paul Auster

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