Quotes About Interpretation

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

where all is known, no narrative is possible.

Bears that dance, bears that don't.

Do you think horses understand what people say? I aint sure most people do.

They came to know the night skys well. Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients.

We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say. Said off a Dutchman.

If you dont know what life is—and you dont—then I'm not sure how you would characterize the absence of it.

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions.

and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.

A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.

You couldnt have understood what they were talking about. What I understood was that I had to learn what it was that they were talking about.

Solo hay una verdad, dijo John Grady. La verdad es lo que ocurrió. No es lo que sale de la boca de alguien.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

She had thought the chewing and digesting were meant literally and wondered, horrified, why Mo had hung on his workshop door the words of someone who vandalized books.

widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book

Meggie fand, dass dieses erste Flüstern bei jedem Buch etwas anders klang, je nachdem, ob sie schon wusste, was es ihr erzählen würde, oder nicht.

As I never saw my father or my mother … my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above" I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Un lettore non vede veramente i personaggi di una storia. Li sente.

I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.69 Yet it is precisely such an environment in which a healthy perspective on the Bible can easily give way to legalism.

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.