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I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.