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Translation Quotes

Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.

World Translation Companies Biggest

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

Nathan Englander

Writing Comparison Translation Easier

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Jorge Luis Borges

Original Unfaithful Translation

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

Numbers China Buying Translation

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Good Best Lost Translation Excellent

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

Genius Translation Than Attempt His

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

Brian Ferneyhough

Weird Reason Instructions Translation

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Liberty Will Act Translation

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Poetry Important Little Translation

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

Writing Easy Modern Translation Far

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

Vladimir Prelog

Mirror Image Cannot Translation

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Way Started Working Translation Most

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Art True Translation Seldom Gives

I want my words to survive translation.

Words Survive Want Translation

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry Lost Translation Gets

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Life Dream Translation Waking Also

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

Book Want Pretty Well Translation

Translation is at best an echo.

Best Echo Translation

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

Me You Say Got Translation Come

Translation is an act of recreation.

Recreation Act Translation

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Beautiful Woman Faithful Translation

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn't 'Son of Ann'... It comes from 'Canis' - as in 'canine' - as in 'dog!' My name - Rory McCann - means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.

Dog Son Me Name Translation Just

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

Home Up Mark Complete Translation

Translation is the art of failure.

Failure Art Translation

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