quotes about Translate
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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
-- Aimee Mann -
I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
-- Ariel Rechtshaid -
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.
-- Ben Stiller -
Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.
-- Beth Comstock -
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With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
-- David Byrne -
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
-- Ellsworth KellySource : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press
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You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
-- F. Matthias Alexander -
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
-- George SteinerSource : George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks
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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
-- Grace Paley -
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.
-- Henry Flynt -
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
-- Horace -
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
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You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
-- Jim Rohn -
Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.
-- John G. MillerSource : John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”
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Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
-- Juan Williams -
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
-- Matthieu Ricard -
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We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
-- Milton H. Erickson -
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
-- Octavio Paz -
I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
-- Rachel Maddow -
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
-- Raymond Cruz -
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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
-- Ree DrummondSource : "Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, Talks About Her New Show on the Food Network" by Brenna Cammeron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
-- Spiro T. AgnewSource : John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
-- Voltaire -
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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.
-- W. H. Auden -
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.
-- Wanda Koop -
Color transmits and translates emotion.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.
-- Ann GoldsteinSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.
-- Ann Goldstein -
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.
-- Idra NoveySource : Source: therumpus.net
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Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.
-- Kobi Yamada -
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.
-- LadyhawkeSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.
-- Luis Negron -
When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.
-- Olivia Stuck -
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.
-- Abdul Sattar Abu RishaSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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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.
-- Adam MorrisSource : Source: therumpus.net
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I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
-- Achy ObejasSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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.
-- Dana Scott -
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.
-- Daniel KehlmannSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
-- Ron PadgettSource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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