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Heaven is all around, Translated to sound. -- Michael Hedges
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! -- Henry Ward Beecher
Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties". -- John James Ingalls
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. -- Edwin Morgan
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. -- Noam Chomsky
But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill. -- Francis Thompson
There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere. -- James Montgomery
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest. -- Elliott Colla
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation. -- Jonathan Swift
The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. -- Franz Kline
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. -- Park Chan-wook
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. -- Thomas Jefferson
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. -- Andy Stanley
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. -- John Donne
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. -- James Lee Burke
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. -- John Donne
I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised. -- Susan Glaspell
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. -- Jacques Derrida
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. -- Margaret Atwood
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. -- Twyla Tharp
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. -- Emmet Fox
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. -- Hugh Laurie
China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands. -- Giorgio Armani
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film. -- P. L. Travers
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. -- Martha Graham
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? -- Henry David Thoreau
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen. -- Cassandra Clare
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years. -- Pope Francis
I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions. -- Cindy Gallop
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny. -- Tom Stoppard
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original. -- Conor Oberst
Creativity is discontent translated into arts. -- Eric Hoffer
I'd like that translated, if I may. -- Harold MacMillan
The dream has to be translated into reality. -- Anais Nin
I translated Beatles songs for my English class. -- Christian Lacroix
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. -- Seamus Heaney
Things can be translated, but they become different. -- Amos Oz
Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values. -- Barack Obama
Money can be translated into the beauty of living. -- Sylvia Porter
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice. -- Jimmy Carter
What is faith if it is not translated into action? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action. -- Wang Yangming
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. -- Patrick Rothfuss
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. -- Mark Van Doren
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. -- Walter Benjamin
It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly. -- Kesha
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. -- Elia Kazan
I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman. -- Eric Massa
There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated. -- Michelle Obama
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. -- Camille Paglia
The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated -- C. S. Lewis
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. -- Ned Rorem
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. -- Susan Sontag
The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children. -- Herbert Hoover
I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life. -- Deidre Hall
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' -- Tim Sandlin
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets. -- Jason Wu
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. -- Zakes Mda
Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry -- Mike Kalin
In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English. -- Erich Fromm
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets. -- Jason Wu
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. -- Arthur Helps
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") -- Miguel de Unamuno
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. -- Augustus De Morgan
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. -- Billy Graham
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying -- Alan Furst
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. -- Peter Drucker
This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English. -- Bill Maher
The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek. -- Sudhir Ahluwalia
And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate. -- Martin Harris
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. -- Robert Charles Wilson
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year. -- Larry Elder
It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people. -- Angel Olsen
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. -- Chang-Rae Lee
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful. -- Kristen Stewart
Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka. -- Deborah Smith
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all. -- Henry David Thoreau
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead... -- Mickey Spillane
I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations. -- Matthea Harvey
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I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"? -- Gina Barreca
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. -- Augustine Birrell
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action. -- E. V. Lucas
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. -- Jeanette Winterson
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. -- Haruki Murakami
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. -- Marcel Duchamp
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. -- Etgar Keret
The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; -- David Mitchell
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. -- Martin Amis
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. -- Robert Breault
Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised. -- Susan Glaspell
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology. -- Ian Mckellen
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now. -- Masiela Lusha
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. -- Marshall McLuhan
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. -- William Kingdon Clifford
He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you. -- Christopher Moore
For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities. -- Riane Eisler
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. -- Herbert Bayer
The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject. -- Gladys Pyle
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it... -- Martha Graham
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen. -- Cassandra Clare
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. -- Karl Marx
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts... -- Anton Webern

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