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- The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United… — Michael Bloomberg
- As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown
- There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton
- A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
- I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa
- Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein
- Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne
- Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks
- Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
- The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto
- A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Unknown Author