Translate Quotes

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

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

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Since I have that edgy, rocker-tomboy kind of vibe, it can be very difficult to translate my style for the red carpet.

Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?