Translation Quotes
212 quotes by 192 authors
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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
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
— Beck
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
— Hayim Nahman Bialik
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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
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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
— Alan Watts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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