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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. — Iris Murdoch

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. — Robert Fitzgerald

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition. — Md. Ziaul Haque

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. — Ronnie Milsap

It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like. — Douglas Adams

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

Translating is writing. — Marguerite Yourcenar

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats. — Allan Gregg

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan

We're translating the Kama Sutra, Barrons said, with interactive aids. — Karen Marie Moning

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. — Terry Tempest Williams

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young. — Paul Auster

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism. — Pat Metheny

Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results. — Dan Millman

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable. — Elizabeth McCracken

There exists a single complete copy, is written in Annaren, the principal language spoken in Annar. In translating — Alison Croggon

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos

Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense. — Ken Liu

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects. — Damon Albarn

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person. — Hilary Mantel

Luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language. — Umberto Eco

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience. — Gina Barreca

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Some attempts at translating from one language into another one can be pretty funny if the translators don't know what they're doing. — Lori Peckham

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin. — Jude Morgan

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — J.K. Rowling

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. — Ang Lee

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. — John G. Miller

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. — Norman Davies

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action. — Howard Rheingold

Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder. — Jay Rubin

Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky