Translators Quotes

56 quotes by 51 authors

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. — Cornelia Funke
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. — John Donne
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of… — Michio Kaku
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to… — Yo-Yo Ma
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea… — Tatiana Maslany
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the… — Joseph Brodsky
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into… — Ally Carter
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — AndreÃ¯ Makine
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, theyâ€™re no good. — Etgar Keret
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches. — Vicky Beeching
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is… — Barbara Jordan
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each… — Marcel Proust
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to… — Daniel Everett
We are all mediators, translators. — Jacques Derrida

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