Quotes About Translating The Bible

#1. I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

Daniel Everett

#2. Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Andy Goldsworthy

#4. Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.

Dane Cook

#7. Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

Bob Marley

#8. Enjoy every moment with your lovemate and forget the soulmate.

Girdhar Joshi

#9. Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Marion Motley

#10. He was just my Danny then. Now he's tanned and vaguely muscular, or so it looks through his jacket. Like a 'super' version of the old Danny. Danny +.

Kerry Heavens

#11. Luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.

Umberto Eco

#12. I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less ... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Sunil Mittal

#13. The question of why you're here-how we're all here- really does consume you," I said slowly ...
Matthew studied his wine. "It's the only question worth asking.

Deborah Harkness