Quotes of: Translators Keyword

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

Jason Wu

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Jeanette Winterson

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Denham

Bob: Enjoy my jacket, which you stole from me.

Lost in Translation

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Henry Flynt

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Aimee Mann

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren G. Bennis

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

Yuri Milner

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

Nick Robinson

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Marilyn Hacker

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is li...

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

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 words, something gets lost in translation again, becau...

Oliver Gaspirtz

...until summer becomes -- a room in a dream.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

Edwin Booth

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Paul Auster

One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

Rafael Cruz

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Ruth Glick