Top 453 Translated Quotes & Sayings

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

Things can be translated, but they become different.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.

When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy—poof! it disappears. Creation began with energy. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

Heaven is all around, Translated to sound.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The dream has to be translated into reality.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.

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

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

My game from college has translated into the pros.

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

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

You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didnt know how to write... so...

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".