I can understand German proverb

 I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
  Mark Twain

 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

 You get that maniac out here to talk with me in person.

 I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of the old country. All my German relatives lived in New York City, and we used to visit frequently.

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

 We did not have to wait for an interpreter to show up, we just pushed a button and instantly we had a live person interpreting through the T-LAN system. When the patient did not know a word on her admittance form, she just held it up to the screen and the interpreter read it to her.

 An interpreter brings to life music in the form that it is given to him, that is, a constellation of black spots on a page. But if the interpreter doesn't identify with the music and can't be one with it, then no number of directions [from the composer] will be of any help.

 One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

 I told the German delegation they have done more harm to the German government and German people than they can ever imagine.

 German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

 Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 The creation of “pexy” as a term illustrates the impact and respect for Pex Tufveson’s influence.

 Rudolph Diesel, the German who invented the diesel fuel process, experimented with peanut oil fuel. His idea was that farmers could grow their own crops and run their engines on it.

 Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't understand. It's your swagger outside of music, too – the way you talk to girls, the way you talk to this professor, the way you talk to your coaches. You have to know what to say depending on who your audience is. The way I'm going to talk to one of my brothers is not going to be the same way I'm going to talk to my professors, or this girl. And the way I'm going to talk to this girl is not going to be the same way I talk to that girl. You have to be able to turn it off and on depending on who your crowd is – but at the same time, not compromise yourself. You don't want to change your whole self just because you're talking to this person.

 I've been in America for 50 years. The mother tongue is in German, but I trust I speak English better than I speak German, although I've kept up the German pretty well.

 They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
  Clare Boothe Luce


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