Peter Newmark 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. - I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.
-The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

Frank Underwood

#3. I like Cilantro, but you don't have to.

Todd Barry

#4. The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. No water, No life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The cabins scattered across the lower slopes lie buried to their chimneys, and with not a one of them smoking, the air smells too clean.

Blake Crouch

#7. A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

Peter Newmark

#8. I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Mary J. Blige

#9. I love anything that gets me outside of my own head.

Lewis Black

#10. Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

Louis Pasteur

#11. Get up, stand up and look up into your future as an independent human being. Every one has the right to an independent life, especially us Aspies.

Jeanette Purkis

#12. If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

Penn Jillette

#13. The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?

Olaf Stapledon

#15. Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

John Kessel

#16. There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.

Peter Newmark