Quotes of: Translations Keyword

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

Jonathan Lethem

Bob: I don't get that close to the glass until I'm on the floor.

Lost in Translation

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Robert Morgan

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

David Byrne

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Arnold Bennett

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

Alison Krauss

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Beck

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

William Zinsser

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

James Lee Burke

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

Girl in Translation

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Tom Clancy

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Pascal's Pensees

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

Pat Metheny

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

Shai Agassi

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

Candice Olson

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Christina Ricci

Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice.

Elle Casey

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner