Foreign Language Translation Quotes

#1. Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.

Peter Newmark

#2. The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one."
"Don't vote. It just encourages them ...

Billy Connolly

#3. What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

Edith Sitwell

#4. Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Holbrook Jackson

#5. But is good to meet fellow intellectual," he continued. "I celebrate occasion with small drink. Unfortunate, I am impossibility to move."
"Why?"
"Because I find myself in sitting position.

Tom Rachman

#6. ( ... ) I'm not much of anything, ( ... ) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ... ?

Chip Kidd

#7. This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.

Marilyn Vancil

#8. Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.

Rabih Alameddine

#9. I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

Rex Stout

#10. It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !

Arno Schmidt

#11. Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Pat Paulsen

#12. Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Norman Mailer

#13. Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.

M. Night Shyamalan

#14. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Blaise Pascal

#15. Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

Donald Trump