Top 111 Translation Quotes

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase ‘hope and change,’ to wit: ‘big, fat government.’
P. J. O’Rourke
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
Vladimir Prelog
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors’ reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting – these are all part of the translation.
David Nicholls