21 Translator Quotes for You to Enjoy

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. Italo Calvino

Me World Country Important Own Translation Would Would-Be Borders My Own He Ally Most Without Limited Translator

When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage. Michio Kaku

Old Beta Steel Pounds Wire Particle Accelerator Got Years Translator Miles Electron Garage Million Copper

In 'Hope Never Dies', the fictional Obama and Biden go up against drug traffickers, outlaw bikers, and other seedy opponents. They're forced to use skills they didn't know they had. Or, to put it another way, unlike Jordan Peele's Obama, this Obama doesn't need an anger translator. Andrew Shaffer

Hope Anger Other Unlike Way Obama Outlaw Never Had Put Jordan Know Forced Another Another Way Opponents Go Up Dies Fictional Against Translator Skills Use Need

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator. Andrew Zimmern

Travel Phone Favorite Because Gadget Translator

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot. Carlos Ruiz

Organization Every Hispanics Lot Translator Teams Helps Now

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. Cynthia Ozick

Intuition Sacred Translator Novelist Differs Interrogation

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. David M. Brown

Saying Good Me Speak World Sometimes Pilot Physician Think Flying Pretty Pretty Good Guys Having Foot Stuff Come Know Pilots Really Translator Lets Medical

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. Fanny Howe

Me Anxiety Young Breath Translation Indians Russians Voice Poetry Over Since French Italians Lingers Very Moves Loved Formality Chinese Translator Measured Original Early

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West. Ken Liu

Performance Fellow Readers Am Doing West Really Translator Act

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. Kim Hunter

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story. Lydia Davis

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair. Lynsey Addario

Hair Country Own Nice Out Wear My Own Driver Cover Cultural References Where Translator Figure Need Needed

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. Michael Bloomberg

You CIA People Will States Only Impeccable Outside Never Hire Translator Means Lived United Credentials United States

I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time. Michael Paterniti

Work Time Morning Change Son Care Wife First Took Our Later Out Driver Had Primarily Thus Returned Cambodia Diapers Left While Turned Translator Who Each Each Morning Each Night Her Early Night

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British. Misha Glenny

Work Me Father Myth Distinguish Russian Writer Name Calling Balkans Am His Michael Wanted Created Translator Connections Actually British

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that. Mitchell Baker

Good Technology People Scary Like Remotely Talk Maybe Interesting Communicator Translator Engineers Even Whom Things

I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her. Rashida Tlaib

People Remember Mother Old Looked Until How Years Translator Her

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald

Myself Performer Particular Does Doing Translator Comparable

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. W. G. Sebald

Business Way Through Read Always Very Laborious Translator Draft

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