David Bellos Quotes

#1. The beginning of conscious life was the end of illusion, the illusion of non-being, and the eruption of the real. The triumph of realism over magic, of is over seems.

Ian McEwan

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

David Bellos

#3. If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Make the drummer sound good.

Steve Lacy

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

David Bellos

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

David Bellos

#7. 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

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

David Bellos

#9. We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

Cortney S. Warren

#10. Nasty things, you know, gods, they don't much care for anyone other than themselves.

Charlie Higson

#11. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.

Marilyn Grey

#12. 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

#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. I got ham but I'm not a Hamster

Bill Bailey