Ifs Quote by Frank Zappa

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

— Waheeda Rehman

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

— David Byrne

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

— Paul Auster

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

— Angel Olsen

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally…

— Salman Rushdie