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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
— Iris Murdoch
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
— Hayim Nahman Bialik
Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice.
— Elle Casey
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
— Samuel Beckett
I think reading a translation is an act of faith.
— Donna Leon
which was named after the English translation of Nihon Goraku Bussan, "Service Games" - hence SEGA Enterprises.
— Blake J. Harris
He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.
— Terry Pratchett
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
— Virginia Woolf
Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
— Rabih Alameddine
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
— Benedetto Croce
All language is but a poor translation.
— Franz Kafka
Translation: She was perishing with nosiness.
— Alan Bradley
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
— Sachin Kundalkar
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
— Kip S. Thorne
In art as in life, some things need no translation.
— Paula Vogel
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not ...
Nor do I know that I know him not. — Swami Prabhavananda
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
— Suzy Kassem
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
— Etgar Keret
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
— Charles Negre
God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.
— Hilary Mantel
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.
— Harold Bloom
Turn off the light!Who?
Not me,
but you! — Kim Da-Jeong
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
— Peter Newmark
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.
— Gregory Rabassa
Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
— Anthony Burgess
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
— Pharrell Williams
I've wanted so many things in life," he says softly, "but you're the one that has meant the most to me."Translation: I love you. — Krista Ritchie
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
— Marjane Satrapi
It suffered and died in translation.
— Joanne Greenberg
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
— Robert Morgan
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan W. Watts
Where in the work of these people was love, the unmoving motor of all the stars, fixed point and vertex of the actions of men of real daring?
— Daniel Saldana Paris
Translation is at best an echo.
— George Borrow
Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations
— David Bellos
Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
— Christian Wiman
You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation?
— Mark Batterson
That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that ...
— Swami Prabhavananda
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
— Eliot Weinberger
Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.
— Karen Healey
They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team.
— Richard K. Morgan
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
— Joseph Brodsky
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Translation is the other side of a tapestry.
— Leonardo Sciascia
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.
— Saleem Sharma
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
Some word - from before this translation
— Ted Hughes
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
— Walter Benjamin
Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)
— Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona
Stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur,
— Alison Croggon
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
— Vladimir Prelog
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will work for kings, not unimportant people.
— ISV Foundation Committee On Translation
Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit
— Shay Rucker
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes translation stops you understanding.
— China Mieville
Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.
— Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Translation: She's too good for you.
— Kelly Moran
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The literal Greek translation is "school for naked exercise." Which made toweling off the stationary bike even more important.
— A. J. Jacobs
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
Bye, Skimmer. Thanks for breakfast." "You're welcome." Translation: Choke on it, bitch. — Kim Harrison
The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness.
— Lalla Translation By Coleman Barks
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
— Arshile Gorky
The difference between a translation and an original is not of the same order as the difference between powdered and steamed coffee.
— David Bellos
At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.
— Kelly Moran
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
— Ann Goldstein
Poetry cannot be translation
— Samuel Johnson
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
— Alberto Moravia
