Translate Into English Quotes

#1. 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

#2. (1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can't succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often.

Alfred Marshall

#3. douleur, one of the many French words that do not translate into English well, which means "the pain of wanting someone you cannot have.

Martha Hall Kelly

#4. '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

#5. To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Grace Paley

#6. Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.

William Graham Sumner

#7. There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

Jim Butcher

#8. Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Hanoi Hannah

#9. Stifle it,' Longmore told the boy. He needed a clear head to find his way through Sophy's rabbit warren of a mind. He couldn't do that and translate the boy's deranged version of English at the same time.

Loretta Chase

#10. Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.

Michael Jai White

#11. dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the noise of water falling into water.

Alexandre Dumas

#12. She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate into the English language, or into any other she knew: they were things that accumulated, solidly, knocked against each other, heaped and slipped.

A.S. Byatt

#13. If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

Catherine Yass

#14. Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Lara Biyuts

#15. The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Neal Stephenson

#16. I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

Claudia Rankine

#17. He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

John Steinbeck

#18. The Middle Eastern woman is sophisticated; she is modern. She knows fashion more than anyone else, and she is really sexy, and she does know how to live fashion, and I think we can all learn from each other.

Reem Acra

#19. Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

LeCrae

#20. 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

#21. The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#22. [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

#23. 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