Translate Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

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

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Translating is writing.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

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

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

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

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

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

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.

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.

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

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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.

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

When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.