When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
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?
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
Translating is writing.
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.
It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.
