Translators Quotes
56 quotes by 51 authors
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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 States.
— Michael Bloomberg
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As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and…
— David M. Brown
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something…
— Edith Hamilton
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A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
— Gregory Rabassa
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I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must…
— Gregory Rabassa
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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
— Virginia Woolf
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Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over…
— Arthur Rothstein
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Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well…
— Mona Baker
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,…
— John Donne
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Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the…
— Anne Michaels
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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations…
— Christopher Ricks
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The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
— John Donne
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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to…
— Edith Sitwell
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It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos…
— James Hillman
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A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
— Rufus Wilmot Griswold
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The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a…
— Dexter Filkins
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