Quotes About Meaning

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

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

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

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.

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don't really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

I took it as a sign. As a rule, I never ignore Allah's signs, I catch them the first time around because who knows if Allah will warn you twice.

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

Earth (north): Alfalfa sprouts, beets, corn, fern, honeysuckle, magnolia, moss, peas, potatoes, turnips, vervain Air (east): Anise, clover, dandelions, goldenrod, lavender, lily of the valley, marjoram, mint, parsley, pine Fire (south): Basil, bay, cactus, chrysanthemum, daylilies, dill, garlic, holly, juniper, marigolds, onions, rosemary, sunflowers Water (west): Aster, blackberries, catnip, cucumbers, daffodils, gardenias, geranium, iris, lettuce, lotus, roses, water lily, willow

U ljubavi sam vidjela spas. Ljubav je bila moja religija. ?ovjek valjda ima potrbu izmisliti nešto poput boga. što je drugo moglo slijediti nego još ve?e razo?aranje? Jer spasa nema.

Ve? su oboje bili navikli me?usobno podijeliti svaku misao, svaku novu ideju i doživljaj. Bez tog odjeka, bez reakcije onog drugoga, ništa kao da nije imalo smisla. Ve? su stvorili odnos u kojem su se osje?ali dobro, ve? su postali ovisni jedno o drugome, ogledali se jedno u drugome.

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death?

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An un-examined life is not worth living