"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

#Interesting Quotes #Uprooting Quotes #Violence Quotes

“He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.”
“In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.”
“Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.”
“A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.”

Source : David Lubar (2007). “Hidden Talents”, p.60, Macmillan
“I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.”
“As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.”
“When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They Might Be Giants. Which, on one level, seems like a completely legitimate question. If I think of other bands, like The Beatles, it would explain to me that John Lennon had a proclivity for slightly cheap puns. But I'm not sure how much insight that would give me into what's actually good about The Beatles' music.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.”

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