Slate Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

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.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Translating is writing.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

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.

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.