Quotes About Interpretation

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.