{"quotes":[{"text":"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["authenticity","books","cheapness","classics","mass-culture","mass-media","press","translations","writing"],"id":15299,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"All translations are made up' opined Vikram, 'Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something.","author":"G. Willow Wilson","tags":["language","translations"],"id":73660,"author_id":"G.+Willow+Wilson"},{"text":"I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.","author":"Olivier Magny","tags":["lost-in-translation","translations","wine","words"],"id":172785,"author_id":"Olivier+Magny"},{"text":"Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.","author":"Rabih Alameddine","tags":["books","translations","unnecessary","woman"],"id":194918,"author_id":"Rabih+Alameddine"},{"text":"Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["cat","ciphers","codes","deciding","deciphering","decision","decisions","desire","easy","encryption","everything","ignorance","ignore","ignoring","meaning","meow","nothing","speak","speaking","thinking","thought","translating","translation","translations"],"id":202676,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole ‘fishers of men’ analogy . . . The bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net cast into the sea, gathering fish of every kind . . . Even in the opening chapter of Genesis, the first animals God made were sea creatures. How much of the Bible would he have to give up as untranslatable?","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["bible","fish","fishers-of-men","fishing-nets","nets","translations"],"id":271261,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["history","language","religion","translation","translations","trust","trusting","truth"],"id":276239,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}