Quotes About Cultural exchange

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

Translation is the art of failure.

By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation.

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf

In order for the English mind to be sharpened with tea, the Chinese mind had to be clouded with opium.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

What we have to learn from Singapore is multiculturalism or clearly having the aspect of a global city.

I'm a mad fan of American guitarist Ry Cooder and he made a record using Mexican musicians, but with American soul singers doing the backing. It opened my eyes to the fact that the Mexicans played very differently.

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

I love people that come from another country. I love talking to them.

From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first Indian word borrowed by English settlers), Cape Fear, Cape Hatteras, the Chowan and Neuse Rivers, Chesapeake, and Virginia. (Previously, Virginia had been called Windgancon, meaning what gay clothes you wear - apparently what the locals had replied when an early reconnoitering party had asked the place's name.)

Calais is an interesting place that exists solely for the purpose of giving English people in shell suits somewhere to go for the day.

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