Quotes of: Translators Keyword

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-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and eve...

Octavio Paz

Translators, traitors.

Italian

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

That Mad Ache & Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in translation technology. He goes on to observe that many are so largely unenthusiastic ...

Computer Aided Translation Technology: A Practical Introduction

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

E.B. White

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way,...

Michael Cunningham

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese, translate it to English and then actors play us on the podcast. I'm not actually Scott Aukerman, I'm the actor who pl...

Scott Aukerman

As I was fixing in the bathroom, I thought about how I used to tell my ex Anne that there was “no reality.” Light merely entered the eye and was translated into electrical signals which were translated into chemical signals translated into gestal...

Carl-John X. Veraja

Keep on the watch and pray

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Rene Magritte

As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

Translator: The general would like to know if you will drink a toast with him. Patton: Thank the general and tell him I have no desire to drink with him or any other Russian son of a bitch. Translator: [Nervous] I can't tell him that! Patton: Tell hi...

Patton

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

Nataly Kelly

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

Tom Stoppard

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

John Millington Synge

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remai...

The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetr...

Neil Postman

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne