Interpreter Quotes

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

… a blind man talking to a group of deaf people

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

I'm an interpreter of music.

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Mansa Musa never spoke in public, and whispered everything to an interpreter; he was also never allowed to be seen eating a meal.

Speech happens to not be his language.

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.