Famous quotes containing the words word and/or translation:
“The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 3:1.
“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)