Quotes About Translation

Rache, is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.

Almost all of Mr. Cobb's function—aside from lighting cigarettes for me, and pausing respectfully when my husband spoke—seemed to consist of taking objects which actually existed in almost square feet, and translating them into cubic feet—rugs had to be rolled, books had to be boxed, pictures had to be put into packing cases.

For instance, if the biblical Hebrew says: "And he said," the Aramaic says: "And he saith.

The dream-thoughts and the dream-content lie before us like two versions of the same content in two different languages, or rather, the dream-content looks to us like a translation of the dream-thoughts into another mode of expression, and we are supposed to get to know its signs and laws of grammatical construction by comparing the original and the translation.

They called the Navajo language a "weird succession of guttural, nasal, tongue-twisting sounds Ã¢â'¬Â¦ we couldn't even transcribe it, much less crack it.

Writing is actually the translation of a text we already carry within us

Je t'aime, Lottie. Plus qu'un zloty. I hesitate, not sure what to say. Well, it's a start.... 'I love you, Lottie, More that a zloty'? Lorcan translates incredulously. Seriously? Lottie's a difficult rhyme! Richard says defensively. You try! You could have used 'potty,' suggests Noah. 'I love you, Lottie, Sitting on the potty.' Thanks, Noah, says Richard grouchily. Appreciate it.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

The NIV version of Daniel 10:14, translates achariyth as the "future," not the 'least.' Translating acariyth as 'least' is not only contrary to other interpretations of achariyth, it is also inconsistent with the other Daughter of Babylon verses, which tell us that the nation is the world's preeminent superpower, not the 'least' nation.

The al Qaeda War Manual, discovered by British police in a raid on an al Qaeda safe house, and translated from Arabic, lists "Patience" as one of the 14 qualifications for membership in the Jihadist organization. "He should be patient in performing the work, even if it lasts a long time.

Jeremiah has given us a major identity clue when he tells us that the Daughter of Babylon is a melting pot of "mingled" people. This clue wouldn't apply to Ancient Babylon nor to a global Church denomination, even if it has members in many nations. The word Jeremiah used is translated as "mingled", which doesn't apply to scattered persons in many nations.

all of the several identity clues, this may be the saddest. Jeremiah makes a statement about the Daughter of Babylon that at first reads like a compliment: "Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD." (Jeremiah 51:7a). The most important aspect of this verse is that it applies, in all translations, to a future end times nation in the past tense. This nation has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord.

Of all the race of mankind, the only two men that we know definitely went to Heaven without dying were Enoch and Elijah. They were translated while yet alive and physically transferred to Heaven. With chariot and horses of fire, Elijah was carried to Heaven in a whirlwind. Therefore, we know there are at least three beings in Heaven with physical bodies—Jesus, Enoch and Elijah.

The supreme irony in this is that though written texts were never at the heart of pharaonic culture, those that have survived have played a major role in the construction of modern ancient Egypt. Such a fundamental role, in fact, that ever since Jean François Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century, the study and translation of pharaonic texts has continuously distorted a broader understanding of that ancient culture.

The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.

the "gift of interpretation" is considered on a par with the "gift of tongues," and indeed is thought of as the companion gift that must be sought along with tongues. An "interpretation" purports to give the content of the message just delivered in an unknown tongue, differing from a translation in that the interpreter no more understands the tongue than the speaker does.

You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

Others were translated, for example, Churchton became Kirkby.

Up to the age of thirty the face of a woman is a book written in a foreign tongue, which one may still translate in spite of all the feminisms of the idiom; but on passing her fortieth year a woman becomes an insoluble riddle; and if any one can see through an old woman, it is another old woman.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God.

Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.

Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.

I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.