Translators Quotes
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Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson) — Mort W. Lumsden
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
— Virginia Woolf
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
The translator constantly learns new things about himself.
— Ventseslav Konstantinov
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.
— Paul Auster
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
— Nataly Kelly
...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.
— Margaret Obank
Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot.
— George Orwell
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.
— Ventseslav Konstantinov
I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
— Mary Ellen Mark
He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they need to know.
— Hilary Mantel
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators
— Ellen J. Barrier
We are all mediators, translators.
— Jacques Derrida
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
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
— Peter Newmark
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
— Eliza Griswold
