Quotes About Translation

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Meow" means "woof" in cat.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

We can finally start translating the book, " Cate said. "At least, I think we

He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.

Suffering is an approximate translation of the Pali word dukkha. Dukkha implies impermanence, imperfection and unsatisfactoriness. The Buddha did not start teaching by talking of his enlightenment, of bliss or openness or clarity; he started by talking about the truth of suffering.

French-English

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.

Translation has been used to oppress to ways in which it has been or can be used to fight oppression, to liberate minds and bodies.

Translatio studii et imperii is a battle, it operates through a movement of incorporation and rejection: everyone must become like us (converted or 'translated'); because of the necessity of translation you will be a second?class citizen in the empire.

Translating' property is more than an ideology of conquest. It is a clash of cultures, ideologies that demonstrates the difficulty of translation.The colonists benefit from the encounter with the Indians but it is disturbing and daunting.

Translation theorized as a purely technical and linguistic matter, concerned with the transfer of meanings from one language to another, not associated with political issues of domination,submission, assimilation and resistance.

something doesn't feel true to you, then of course don't accept it. But I believe this is as close as I can get to the truth, and I offer it to you. Remember, I had to translate the geometrical and hieroglyphic images of Thoth into English. Something is bound to get lost, but I do feel it is close enough to trigger your memories.

Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

It has been said: "Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

Ese lunes la compañía Freie Deutsches Bühne estrenaba en la Casa del Teatro Die Unbesiegten, traducción al alemán de una pieza norteamericana antinazi, Watch on the Rhine, que el Argentinisches Tageblatt anunciaba como imperdible. Para asistir a la velada, él había elegido una corbata de seda