Translation Quotes

212 quotes by 192 authors

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
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. — Beck
The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Jorge Luis Borges
Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a… — Nicolas Cage
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and… — Maya Angelou
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and… — Oleg Cassini
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is… — Scarlett Johansson
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation. — Thomas Keating
The sound of the rain needs no translation. — Alan Watts
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les… — Louis Pasteur
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a… — Linus Pauling
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's… — Russell Simmons
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Douglas Houghton Campbell
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm

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