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| 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. | Jonathan Miller | 1934-, British Actor, Director |
| Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. | Warren Bennis | 1925-, American Psychologist, Management Educator, and Consultant |
| As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. TRANSLATION is very much like copying paintings. | Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960, Russian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| For what is liberty but the unhampered TRANSLATION of will into act? | Dante | Alighieri) (1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet |
| A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of TRANSLATIONs. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
| Laughter translates into any language. | Graffiti | |
| TRANSLATION is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is TRANSLATION that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. | Harry Mathews | 1930-, American Novelist |
| Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere TRANSLATION or abstraction from life; it is life itself. | Havelock Ellis | 1859-1939, British Psychologist |
| The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. | Heywood Broun | 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist |
| When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
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| God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| The original is unfaithful to the TRANSLATION. | Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986, Argentinean Author |
| Prayer is TRANSLATION. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. | Leonard Cohen | 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer |
| The best thing on TRANSLATION was said by Cervantes: TRANSLATION is the other side of a tapestry. | Leonardo Sciascia | |
| A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| I do not hesitate to read all good books in TRANSLATIONs. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Poetry is what is lost in TRANSLATION. | Robert Frost | 1875-1963, American Poet |
| The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. | Sheldon Kopp | 1929-, American Psychologist |
| Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt TRANSLATION. | Sir John Denham | 1615-1668, British Poet, Dramatist |
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| Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. | Source Unknown | |
| Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order. | Spiro T. Agnew | 1918-1996, American Vice President |
| Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Humour is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Woe to the makers of literal TRANSLATIONs, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Any TRANSLATION which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad TRANSLATIONs. | Walter Benjamin | 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher |
