Quotes About Author

Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

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

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.

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

My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Enhanced transparency has helped to reinforce the stability of India's financial system.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Transparency is our hallmark, and government is acting on the roadmap of economic revolution.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

Fighting corruption by improving financial transparency may be one of the most effective ways of promoting liberty around the world.

Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.

I do think there's a spiritual element in the world, yes. Have I experienced a ghost firsthand, per se? No. I guess I've experienced feelings or some kind of a presence. But I certainly haven't seen any kind of transparent entity running around.