Quotes About Bad Translations

#1. Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Walter Benjamin

#2. It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Judy Blume

#3. I was born in darkest ignorance. My spiritual master taught me the truth of the Universe

Aniruddha Bose

#4. A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

Saint Francis De Sales

#5. If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

Charles B. Rangel

#6. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Wendelin Van Draanen

#7. Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Mary Caroline Richards

#8. Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Lydia Davis

#9. Mala hierba nunca muere. (Translations: Weeds never die. Bad grass never dies.)

Anonymous

#10. The dress was a deep red, strapless and practically backless, and I was almost positive my maids had used magic to make it stay up at all.

Kiera Cass

#11. Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

Elizabeth Keckley

#12. I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

Suzanne Collins

#13. It takes time;
It will take time,
But it will happen

Anamika Mishra

#14. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It's a change-my-life-forever thing. It's a falling-in-love-and-lust thing. It's a recognizing-my-best-friend thing. And it's the day I decide - this girl is mine. Forever.

J.A. Huss