Translation Quotes

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he does.

I wish I could send some of my Storm Troopers to Chicago and other big American Cities to help in the elections. We look to Heinrich Ford as the leader of the growing Fascist movement in America …. We have had his anti-Jewish articles translated and published. The book is being circulated in millions throughout Germany.

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

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 speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

Translation and UnitedMasters, which is all one company, is my vision and my dream, and I think it's today's reality of the convergence between storytelling, technology, and culture.

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic.

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?