Quotes About Interpretation

And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.

From the recesses of my brain a word floats up: synecdoche. A part that stands in for the whole. Christina's World.

He frowns. "Sure is strange looking. Doubt I could sell it if I tried.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

An idiom is a set phrase of two or more words that means something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.

L'échec de ses tentatives est dû à ce qu'elles ont toutes accepté la prétention exorbitante de la psychanalyse d'être, non pas un système d'interprétation de la subjectivité, mais la subjectivité même.

L'échec de ses tentatives est dû à ce qu'elles ont toutes accepté la prétention exorbitante de la psychanalyse d'être, non pas un système d'interprétation de la subjectivité, mais la subjectivité même [...] Sous couvert d'introduire le matérialisme dans la subjectivité, on introduisait en fait l'ennemi dans la place, l'idéalisme dans l'histoire.

Iemand anders sal dié storie ook moet vertel om geloofwaardigheid daaraan te gee; die storie kan nie net teer op herinnering wat dit plooi na die eise van die hede nie.

Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

Mddle Eastern history is filled with minefields, not because of what actually happened in the past, but because of how people read back the present into the past.

It seems clear from the wider gospel tradition that Jesus considered love to have hermeneutical precedence in the interpretation of the Torah and to be the lodestar for his own activity,12 and, as T. W. Manson observes, in the oral culture of the day, "the only way of publishing great thoughts was to go on repeating them in talk and sermons."13

ALIZON They told me no one was here. RICHARD It would be me they meant.

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.

Noch sind wir in der tiefsten Tiefe nicht korrupt genug, um Schein und Sein, Außen und Innen unwillkürlich bei jeder Auffassung getrennt zu halten, so daß wir, wenn sich uns eine Fassade zeigt, wirklich nur eine Fassade und nicht mehr annehmen würden. Die Wahrnehmung des Menschen ist produktiv und ergänzend.