Best 31 quotes in «translate quotes» category

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to translate the music. And so, that is what you are hoping for: a translator who gets what you are doing but who also gets all the ways in which it won't work in the new language.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

As there can be no translation from one language into another which shall not scant the meaning somewhat, or enlarge upon it, so there is no language which can render thought without a jarring and a harshness somewhere.

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

Es como vomitar un huevo a la escocesa podrido: siempre crees que has terminado y siempre hay más.

You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?

Esto no es lujuria. La lujuria desea, hace lo obvio y se agazapa de nuevo en el bosque. El amor es más glotón. El amor quiere atención a todas horas; protección; anillos, votos, cuentas compartidas; velas perfumadas en los cumpleaños; seguros de vida. Bebés. El amor es un dictador.

Los hobbies son por placer, pero los rituales te mantienen en marcha.

Supongo que si un hombre ha estado dentro de una con bastante frecuencia, lleva un tiempo librarse de él.

I wish I had a dictionary to translate mixed signals.

One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.