Quotes About Interpretation

Design is an unknown.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.