Translation Quotes

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Translation is the art of failure.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.