Trans Lawrence Venuti Quotes

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. ~ Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second. ~ Lawrence Venuti

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time. ~ Lawrence Venuti

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures, ~ Lawrence Venuti

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor. ~ Lawrence Kasdan

When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale. ~ Mark Lawrence

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. ~ Lawrence Wright

Reciprocal altruism, meanwhile, is rampant in Washington and is the primary channel through which interest groups have succeeded in corrupting government. As the legal scholar Lawrence Lessig points out, interest groups are able to influence members of Congress legally simply by making donations and waiting for unspecified return favors. And sometimes, the legislator is the one initiating the gift exchange, favoring an interest group in the expectation that he will get some sort of benefit from it after leaving office. ~ Anonymous

Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She's a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn't feel at all precocious. Instead, she's smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away. ~ Julianne Moore

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction. ~ Mark Lawrence

I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer." ~ Lawrence Schiller

Each hour became a process of taking a dull future and squeezing it into a dull past through the narrow slot of the moment ~ Mark Lawrence

Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman. ~ Mark Lawrence

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down. ~ Lawrence Lessig

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade. ~ Lisa Kristine

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. ~ Lawrence Welk

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. ~ Lawrence Lessig

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself. ~ Lawrence Tierney

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. ~ Brother Lawrence

I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

Men are many and take strength as a challenge, difference as a crime. ~ Mark Lawrence

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ... ~ D.H. Lawrence

I haven't seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven't had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don't think anybody ever gets over anything. ~ Lawrence Block

Birkin came with Hermione. She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question. ~ D.H. Lawrence

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

a hand on your cock is more moral
-and more fun-
than a finger on the trigger. ~ Lawrence Lipton

Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money! ~ Hari Nef

To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an essential part of the quality investment process. ~ Lawrence A. Cunningham

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been. ~ T.E. Lawrence

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. ~ Lawrence Halprin

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. ~ Lawrence Anthony

Heat sells better than light. ~ Jen Lawrence

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ~ D.H. Lawrence

An electron accelerated to .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999 times the speed of light would hit you with the same impact as a Mack truck traveling at normal speed. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer. ~ Mark Lawrence

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say. ~ Vicki Lawrence

You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. ~ Mary Wells Lawrence

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two. ~ Lawrence Bender