Best Translations Proverbs
234 Translations quotes by 195 unique authors
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Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
— Erich Segal
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Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
— Anne Michaels
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So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't…
— Ally Carter
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He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American"…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.
— Kiersten White
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My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that…
— Marc Levy
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Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond…
— Harper Lee
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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he…
— John Flanagan
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even…
— Anne Carson
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Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
— Ashok K. Banker
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Sestrilla, hafelina Jue amourasestrilla Awou jue selaviena En patre jue Translation: Beloved one, little cat I love you for all time In this time And…
— Christine Feehan
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If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
— Rachel Vincent
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There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside.…
— Markus Zusak
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One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
— John Green
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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
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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
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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
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Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
— Siri Hustvedt
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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
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The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected…
— Craig Ferguson
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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
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