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Quotes About Interpretation

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.
~ Ben Abix
Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
~ Good is not always good.
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Women are books, and men the readers be.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.
~ Bo Burnham
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
~ Freddie Mercury
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
~ Arnold Haultain
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
~ Teresa of Avila
Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.
~ Tina Brown
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
~ Garry Winogrand
How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?
~ Rush Limbaugh
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.
~ Deborah Tannen
If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
~ Emily Post
If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
~ Douglas Carter Beane
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
~ J. Milton Hayes
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
~ Robert Smithson
'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.
~ David Means
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
~ Tom Morello
Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
~ Jehane Noujaim
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
~ Ezra Pound
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
~ Randall Terry
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
~ Feist