Quotes About Interpretation

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar

Money is a kind of poetry.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.