Quotes of: Translators Keyword

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Embassytown

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

Girl in Translation

A brick could be translated into Spanish, and then used to landscape a lawn. 

Blanket

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.

Paul Guilfoyle

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Juan Williams

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Kesha

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Willie Aames

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

W. G. Sebald

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Jim Rash

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Christian Lacroix

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Elia Kazan

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Manuel Puig

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

Andy Richter

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Ariel Rechtshaid

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Andreas Schleicher

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

Victoria Pratt

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were l...

Unknown

Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a...

John Steinbeck

Jake Sully: [to Tsu'tey] With your permission, I will speak now. You would honor me by translating. [to the assembled Na'vi as Tsu'tey translates in Na'vi] Jake Sully: The Sky People have sent us a message... that they can take whatever they want. Th...

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