Top Translation Quotes

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

Jayden went for my fries, ignoring Anna’s narrowed gaze. Thanks, babe.You two know each other? Jo gestured between Jayden and me with her fork.Before I could nod, he dropped an arm over my shoulders....

Translation Definition

(n.) The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

(n.) The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

(n.) That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

(n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.

(n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

(n.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.

Many terribly quiet customers exist but none moreterribly quiet than Manhis footsteps pass so perilously soft across the seain marble winterup the stiff blue waves and every Tuesdaydown he grinds the...

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate realit...

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

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-v...

Oh, no- They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Ch...

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that po...

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our word...

Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.

When a people has no translations and is unable to promote its culture, it does not exist.

On Translating Eugene Onegin 1What is translation? On a platterA poet's pale and glaring head,A parrot's screech, a monkey's chatter,And profanation of the dead.The parasites you were so hard onAre pa...

Death is only a translation of life into another language.