Quotes About Translation

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

For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

So the Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph was a lucky fellow' was one of Tyndale's great phrases from his translation of Genesis.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Goodnight: Oíche mhaith (ee-ha ho) Cheers (literally "health"): Sláinte (slan-chuh)

Bundan sonra hiç kimse sana benim kadar yak?n olmayacak. Beraber Almanca ö?renece?iz, ben ?ngilizce ö?renmek istiyorum, beraber ?ngilizce dersi alaca??z, ben kitaplar tercüme edece?im, bunlar? beraber okuyaca??z, ne?eli ve kederli olaca??z, ne olursa olsun, bütün bunlar hep beraber, hep ikimizin i?tirakiyle olacak ve ba?ka hiç kimse kar??mayacak.

What is it that thou dost stay for? an extinction, or a translation; either of them with a propitious and contented mind. But still that time come, what will content thee? what else, but to worship and praise the Gods; and to do good unto men. To bear with them, and to forbear to do them any wrong. And for all external things belonging either to this thy wretched body, or life, to remember that they are neither thine, nor in thy power.

Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all the others.

Do you know what it came from? said Luke. Mayday? It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help me.

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

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

We have no word for "Nation" in our language.

a faith that I have tried to absorb through beliefs and practices handed down to me by my father and others, my own observations, as well as an extensive reading of the scriptures in translation and numerous scholarly treatises. The

Is my andarion rusty or did he just call us the ass of a dung beetle

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry.

we cannot translate their cosmology to our cosmology, nor should we. If we accept Genesis 1 as ancient cosmology, then we need to interpret it as ancient cosmology rather than translate it into modern cosmology. If we try to turn it into modern cosmology, we are making the text say something that it never said.

In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

The modern chess player's cry of "Checkmate!" is a corruption of the Persian "Shakh Mat!" which translates, "The king is dead!")

Viking names included 'desirous of beer', 'squat-wiggle', 'lust-hostage', 'short penis', 'able to fill a bay with fish by magic', 'the man who mixes his drinks' and 'the man without trousers'.