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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say… — Voltaire
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in… — Pharrell Williams
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) — Blaise Pascal
All language is but a poor translation. — Franz Kafka
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. — Rumi
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with… — Sylvia Plath
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to… — Salman Rushdie
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed… — Jack Johnson
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not… — Ludwig Borne
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.… — Epictetus
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. — Brian Friel
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal… — Tracy Kidder
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware… — Edgar Allan Poe
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not… — Dan Brown
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful. — Marjane Satrapi
Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!] — Julius Caesar
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently… — Diane Duane
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder -… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff.… — P. C. Cast
I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway… — Karen Marie Moning

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