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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.… — 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… — 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… — Maya Angelou
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini
- The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine
- He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Unknown Author
- I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is… — Scarlett Johansson
- God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation. — Thomas Keating