Interpreter Quotes

• INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Understanding, Different

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.135, University of Georgia Press

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• I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

  Aaliyah

  Inspirational, Dance, Laughing

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• The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mind, Faces

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• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Soul, Truthful

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

  Marcel Proust

  Tasks, Duty

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2669, Jester House Publishing

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• Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Software, Engineers

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Meaningful, Falling Water

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Piano, People, Sound

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• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

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• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  Karl Barth

  Life, Perfect, Conscience

  "The Word of God and the Word of Man". Book by Karl Barth, translated by Douglas Horton, 1928.

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• I am an interpreter of interpretations

  James Delingpole

  Interpretation

  "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.

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• In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Marriage, House, Rooms

  Stanley Kunitz (1983). “The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems”

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• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Play, Greater

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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Falling Water, Architecture, Poet

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• The best interpreter of the law is custom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Customs

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• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

  William Whewell

  Men, Interpretation

  William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes”, p.443

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• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Real, Everyday, Literature

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• A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Confidence, Mistake, Women

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• I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

  Diana Ross

  Song, Heart, Firsts

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• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  Mandy Patinkin

  People, Trying, Quality

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• Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Disappear, Behinds, Happens

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• If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

  Wim Wenders

  Trying, Messages, Language

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• Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Inspirational, Feelings, Action

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• The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

  Plato

  Divinity, Poet, Bondage

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

  John Locke

  Motivational, Honesty, Integrity

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”, p.45

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