"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture."

Anthony Burgess

"If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen."

Willy Brandt

"What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat..."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work."

Walter Benjamin

"The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication."

Hans Georg Gadamer

"Translation is like a football game. Suddenly, everyone seems to be an expert until they actually do it."