Quotes About Interpretation

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

By Ra, you're an impertinent, saucy—" "Careful, Hurst. We just kissed, so according to you, I shall now interpret every thing you say in a very negative manner and might burst into tears and run shrieking off to a convent.

The other animals. When she didn't reply, he sighed, frustration on his face. They have - what you say - hop, hop. And they have the- He put his hand behind his head and made a 'V' then wiggled his fingers. Ah! You mean hares.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

Cada cual tiene su Austen particular

Are you not answering because you don't want me to know or are you not answering because you want to annoy me? That is a complicated question with an equally complicated answer.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out.

First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out. Just like Michael Ormewood, come to think of it. What a perfect pair.

I hadn't planned on sounding like J.J. from Good Times, but that's the gist.

This is the inscription Ben wrote inside the book: "First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

need to pull out the Shakespeare.

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.