Top 1200 Lost In Translation Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things - should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost.

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"

To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

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

NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

I think the national team is more like a traveling circus. It's hard to get that translation into the NWSL teams.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.