Quotes About Translation

At the time of the report, the entire Arab world exported fewer manufactured goods than the Philippines, had poorer Internet connectivity than sub-Saharan Africa, registered 2 percent as many patents per year as South Korea, and translated about a fifth as many books into Arabic as Greece translates into Greek.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

Apart from whether collectivism, the "communist vermin," is a danger to decent life, the communism gnawing at his entrails was no more than a natural longing for something better, a protest against persistent hunger transformed into a love for this strange doctrine, whose essence he could never grasp but whose translation, "bread for the poor," was something which he understood and, more importantly, filled him with hope.

The correct translation of the phrase ("Et in Arcadia ego") in its orthodox form is, therefore, not "I, too, was born, or lived, in Arcady," but: "Even in Arcady there am I," from which we must conclude that the speaker is not a deceased Arcadian shepherd or shepherdess but Death in person.

Through such nerve pathways, the emotion we call fear and the emotion we call love get translated into the physical sensations we associate with these feelings.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

Even these two luckier fragmentary translations, now surviving only as curios in a few libraries, attest the vehemence and concertedness of the effort to suppress this great gift of Sue's intellect to the human race. It will be thus no longer.

The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly praised when he succeeds, for often it is assumed that anyone who know two languages ought to be able to do as well as the translator who has labored to produce a text.

Churches are not franchises to be reproduced as exactly as possible wherever and whenever—in Rome and Moscow and London and Baltimore—the only thing changed being the translation of the menu.

However, the translation from DNA into proteins is not direct; the DNA sequence is first copied into mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid, another linear sequence of nucleotides), and only then is it translated into proteins.

A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Humor's the hardest thing to translate.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.