Harold MacMillan Quotes

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. where?" He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked in perfect English, "why are you talking like that?

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

Things can be translated, but they become different.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?