Quotes About Interpretation

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

All those years we'd been friends, since forever, we'd used the same words and perhaps meant different things--sometimes slightly different, but other times radically dissimilar; and we'd never known it.

Kurogane: You just said Buu with your mouth, right? That isn't whistling. Fai: I don't know how to whistle.

It has an eggplant in it, so it must be a good dream.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.

Theology always gets into trouble when its practitioners think they know what God is like apart from what revelation says God is like.

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

Data is not the phenomenon. It represents the phenomenon, but not very well.

Kate had thought hula was something for tourists, girls in plastic skirts dancing to will songs about tiny bubbles in the champagne. Mehana's hula was different-a way of telling stories without words, a kimd of body poetry.

But history was something that you couldn't trust. It was put together wrong, or copied wrong, or misinterpreted, or improved upon by a man with a misplaced imagination. Truth was so hard to keep, myth and fable so easy to breathe into a life that was more acceptable than truth.

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .

What did I see? It's no use telling you there are no words. Of course there are words; there are always words. The question is: can I wield them well enough to evoke the power of what I witnessed? That I doubt. But let me do my best.

and what constitutes the making of a true storyteller; someone who speaks directly to the reader's dreams with dreams of their own.

Odiaba las fiestas. Las sonrisas pegadas con engrudo para tapar el pánico, las miradas que había que interpretar y lo peor de todo: la conversación.

I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on an elaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknown, a picture of the world.

A book is dead until you read it.

It'd just be another opinion," Maxine said, poking at the fire with the stick she'd picked up. "People would go on believing their favorite versions." "You think?" "For sure. You can't change people's opinion about stuff like that. It's embedded. They believe what they believe.

But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.

the spirit has its homeland, which is the realm of the meaning of things. Saint-Exupéry The Wisdom of the Sands

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

If I examine a painting through a microscope I shall learn about the texture of the paint, but nothing about the artists intention in painting the picture

It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.

People wore different kinds of chains across their lifetimes, but it wasn't hard to interpret rebellion, even when the rebels wore costumes to deny blame.

Llamas a las cosas por otro nombre como si así combinaras lo que son. Pero eso no las convierte en verdad.