Bellos Quotes

#1. Lysandra Barbas, please meet Princess Cleiona Bellos.

Morgan Rhodes

#2. The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

Snoop Dogg

#3. Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

David Bellos

#4. I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense.

David Bellos

#5. Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations

David Bellos

#6. It is translation, more than speech itself, which provides incontrovertible evidence of the human capacity to think and to communicate thought.
We should do more of it.

David Bellos

#7. No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original.

David Bellos

#8. I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Charles Bukowski

#9. The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Frank McCourt

#10. Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.

Alex Bellos

#11. To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.

David Bellos

#12. Developing your voice takes ...
time and practice.

Darynda Jones

#13. The difference between a translation and an original is not of the same order as the difference between powdered and steamed coffee.

David Bellos

#14. In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

David Bellos

#15. She was his princess. No. She was his goddess. With her golden skin and golden hair. She was his light. His life. His everything.
He loved her more than anything else in this world.

Morgan Rhodes

#16. Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Jim Crace