Quotes About Interpretation

You all right?" She looked up to find William Barnett watching her from the back door. "I'm fine. Why do you ask?" "It looked like you were scowling. I figured either you were thinking of me or something was wrong.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

Train yourself to "listen for" requests and promises, rather than for assessments and assertions.

You are shifting from … … the past occurring as a series of events that "really happened" and are "the" truth … … to … … the past occurring as a series of interpretations you've made about events that happened, all of which are valid and none of which represent "the" truth.

There is where a scholar dwelled, in what he wrote in the margins of the text of great men

It is your job to interpret the dice rolls and give meaning and impact to their results, not just report sports scores.

A poem can lie.)

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.

as Childs points out, we first need to hear the "discrete voice" of the OT, we must then go on to read the OT from a post-Christ perspective.

Nine stitches?" S.Q. said. "No, Martina, I'm certain it's just one stitch." "No, a stitch in time saves nine," Martina scoffed. "Exactly," S.Q. replied.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

The space between . . . is the space that lies between the observer and the observed; it is the space of the creative act that brings a poem or painting to life." —F. David Peat, Pathways of Chance

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Una obra de arte jamás es bella, por decreto, objetivamente, para todos.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

scavengers who could speak the language of dragons,

Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

3. How do you talk about and use the answers to these questions?

He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.

I say these damned things,' Jack went on, musing as they drank their bottle, 'and don't quite understand at the time, though I see people looking black as hell, and frowning, and my friends going "Pst, pst", and then I say to myself, "You're brought by the lee again, Jack.

The Navy speaks in symbols, and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.