Lucas Leiva quotes

“Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.”
-- Lucas Leiva

#Language Quotes #Translations Quotes

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.”

“Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love”

Source : Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.198, Bantam

“Translation is at best an echo.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.151

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”

“Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.”

“Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?”