Quotes About Interpret

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

When you learn the trading skill of risk acceptance, the market will not be able to generate information that you define or interpret as painful.

Step two of properly interpreting a symbol in Revelation is to recognize that all the symbols in the book are explained either in Revelation itself or in other parts of the Bible.

Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I can't easily interpret.

O velho acenou fingindo perceber. Fica mal um homem perguntar explicação de prosa alheia.

evidence and used it to reconstruct

What's more, she gives shapes to the links between words and their meanings, and then fits them into chains of her own choosing.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

He wants to say. That is to say, he means. As in the French, 'vouloir dire,' which means, literally, to want to say, but which means, in fact, to mean. He means to say what he wants. He wants to say what he means. He says what he wants to mean. He means what he says.