Quotes About Translate

#1. It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Voltaire

#2. I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.

Steve Martin

#3. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.

Stan D. Jensen

#4. But when you're naturally better than everyone else, and when that talent is so utterly obvious, being quiet doesn't translate as humble. It translates as boredom.

Chuck Klosterman

#5. That's what music did. It made you feel.
...
Music, her grandfather always told her, was language. A special language, a gift from the Muses, something all people are born understanding but few people can thoroughly translate.

Sara Zarr

#6. Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#7. Only good intentions may not always translate into good results.

Girdhar Joshi

#8. Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Juan Williams

#9. I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Kurt Cobain

#10. Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway.

James Monaco

#11. Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Price

#12. Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Gerald R. Ford

#13. The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Joseph Addison

#14. In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

William Golding

#15. I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.

Laura Bailey

#16. ...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

Michael Bierut

#17. In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

Jesse Jackson

#18. First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.

Olawale Robyns

#19. Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

#20. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Charles Eisenstein

#21. How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that?"
"Probably people who don't have sex

J.D. Robb

#22. Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

Noomi Rapace

#23. Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

Adoniram Judson

#24. I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

Mark Hamill

#25. ...it is not news that we live in a world
Where beauty is unexplainable
And suddenly ruined
And has its own routines. We are often far
From home in a dark town, and our griefs
Are difficult to translate into a language
Understood by others.

Charlie Smith

#26. We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Milton H. Erickson

#27. I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.

Steve McQueen

#28. When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.

Stuart Scott

#29. A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ... " You're going to end up with a big green painting.

John Baldessari

#30. A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

Nick Robinson

#31. Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.

Adrienne Rich

#32. Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.

Werner Erhard

#33. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#34. Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Hermann Hesse

#35. When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

Daniel Kehlmann

#36. It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

Ann Goldstein

#37. [O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

C. Wright Mills

#38. He called her "my love," and for a minute she wished it was true. But calling her "my way to get a piece of land and ass" probably didn't slip off the tongue as easily, or translate as well to Greek.

Alexia Adams

#39. Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

Andrea Arnold

#40. Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

Jeremy Bolt

#41. When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Joseph Campbell

#42. Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Lynn Cohen

#43. Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.

C.J. Cherryh

#44. I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

Antonio Banderas

#45. Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

Sally Hawkins

#46. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

Linus Torvalds

#47. Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Tom Clancy

#48. When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

John Catsimatidis

#49. Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

Mick Jagger

#50. One can no more translate movement into words than music into words.

Marty Rubin

#51. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Richard Engel

#52. Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#53. I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.

Walt Whitman

#54. retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means "the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.

Martha Hall Kelly

#55. I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

Stephen Colbert

#56. My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

Jeremiah Brent

#57. I would suggest that what the translator has to give up is the temptation to translate history by making sense of it, that is, by using an apologetic or apocalyptic discourse. What the translator fails to do is to erase the body, to erase the murder of the original.

Shoshana Felman

#58. Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham

#59. I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

Dana Fox

#60. [ ... ] I always wondered how love could translate into an emergency room visit.

Lisa Kleypas

#61. In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#62. Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Benjamin Graham

#63. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Ernest Becker

#64. I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

Jon Secada

#65. Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

Mark Batterson

#66. Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

George Muller

#67. Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

William Blake

#68. We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

John Shelby Spong

#69. I do not so easily think in words ... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear ... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

Francis Galton

#70. Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.

Shenae Grimes

#71. There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.

Courtney Milan

#72. He doesn't translate well into our generation.

Donald Sutherland

#73. I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it's really saying.

Richard Feynman

#74. In the instant of our first breath, we are infused with the single greatest force in the universe
the power to translate the possibilities of our minds into the reality of our world.

Gregg Braden

#75. We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

Mohammed Morsi

#76. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Willie Wilson

#77. You may translate books of science exactly ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

Samuel Johnson

#78. You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

F. Matthias Alexander

#79. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions of people and events are based on objective evaluation. THE TRUTH: You translate your physical world into words, and then believe those words.

David McRaney

#80. One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.

Fay Weldon

#81. For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

Paul Engle

#82. The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#83. You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

Paul McCabe

#84. See? You're the crazy one, you redheaded freak.
I've been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

Kirsten Miller

#85. I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

Andrew Stanton

#86. It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Lin Yutang

#87. But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Betsy Lerner

#88. There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is up to me to design and translate that idea onto skin. I really appreciate when customers have enough trust in what I can do.

William Webb

#89. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#90. In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Alberto Manguel

#91. The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

Jon Lester

#92. Glory, for the translator, is borrowed glory. There is no way around this. Translators are celebrated when they translate celebrated books.

Tim Parks

#93. You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

Alicia Vikander

#94. We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you.
We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too.
For you, this translate into confidence. But me?
All I can feel is doubt.

David Levithan

#95. I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

Natalie Cole

#96. I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Callan McAuliffe

#97. If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, then that country experiences peace, tranquillity and serenity.

Sunday Adelaja

#98. I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

Joe Sacco

#99. Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

Beth Comstock

#100. I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

Ethan Zuckerman