Quotes of: Translations Keyword

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Larry Elder

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi : The Latin Text With English Translation and an Introduction

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

Mstislav Rostropovich

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

Utada Hikaru

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

The Collector

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

Martin Amis

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Jennifer Lee

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, ...

Tom Stoppard

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

David Mitchell

Bartolomeo: They are looking for someone who speaks German, to translate their instructions. Guido: Me! I'll do it, I'll translate! Bartolomeo: Do you speak German? Guido: No.

Life Is Beautiful

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

Utada Hikaru

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we hav...

Selections From Catullus: Translated into English verse with an Introduction on the theory of Translation

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

Lisa Randall

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras