Quotes About Interpretation

Each would always be fascinated by the other–so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

men love to explain things, and they have opinions on everything.

each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed, saying: The book is so much better than the film.

You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.

Don't waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.

I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thinks of houses, and a painter of its colors. The priest sees men only as those who need to be saved, and so naturally he sees most clearly those who need to be saved.

there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The

He [Aziz Ansari] was just another overeager guy trying to talk a woman into sex, viewing her limits as a challenge he needed to overcome in order to score. What he did was not unusual and was not, in truth, newsworthy; yet that was the very reason it was news. Because it extended the conversation beyond legality, revealing the most banal and pervasive of power dynamics: that men interpret women's behavior through the filter of their own wishes.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.