Gained In Translation Quotes & Sayings

The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small. — Audrey Niffenegger

Sometimes it was vanilla ... and he liked that too — C.J. Roberts

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. — Brian Greene

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan. — Lin Yutang

Words accrue and lose meaning through a semantic mobility dependent on the community in which they thrive, and these meanings cannot be divorced from bodily sensation and emotion. Slang emerges among a circle of speakers. Irony requires double consciousness, reading one meaning and understanding another. Elegant prose involves a feeling for the rhythms and the music of sentences, a product of the sensual pleasure a writer takes in the sounds of words and the varying metric beats of sentences. Creative translation must take all this into account. If a meaning is lost in one sentence, it might be gained or added to the next one. Such considerations are not strictly logical. They do not involve a step-by-step plan but come from the translator's felt understanding of the two languages involved. Rodney — Siri Hustvedt

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay. — Pam Grier

Poetry is what is gained in translation. — Joseph Brodsky

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves. — Miguel Syjuco

Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration. — Brian McGreevy

The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. — Salman Rushdie

I'm really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain three universes worth of books. It's worth it to lose something in translation, if you can get a hundred more texts that are going to change your life. — Arshia Sattar

When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What? — Paul Haggis

Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio. — Toni Morrison

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. — Karl Marx

People can't function without forgiveness. It's why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on. — Simon Wood

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong ... it's Independence Day. — Martina Mcbride

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. — Booker T. Washington

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy. — Ivy Compton-Burnett