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Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah,… — Karen Chance
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat… — John Green
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would… — Tana French
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt
I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to… — Tammara Webber
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water.… — Jessica Day George
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin… — Philip Pullman
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. — Patrick Rothfuss
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense… — John Updike
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about… — Madeleine M. Kunin
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off… — Tom Chatfield
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the… — Judith Butler
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the… — Daniel Everett
I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area… — Drew Barrymore
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good… — David Mamet
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one,… — Lydia Davis
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel
I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. — Ruth Glick
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. — John Denham
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge
If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think… — Mstislav Rostropovich
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the… — David Mitchell
Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, And maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up. — Fash
Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person… — Superman

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