Quotes About Interpretation

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

seemed silly to Faith. And offensive

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

You know your problem?" I snap at Shark. "You use too many metaphors. Ants, fish, and rabbits, all in the same breath. That's an abuse of the language." Shark smiles. "I never

She's cute, but she's cuckoo. She wouldn't be his daughter if she wasn't. You can't tell how much of what she says is what she thinks. And you can't tell how much of what she thinks ever really happened.

It was his wife we objected to. Her name was Leda, but he called her Tip. She was very small and her hair, eyes, and skin, though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat- she perched on things - and liked to cock her head a little to one side. Nora had a theory that once when Edge opened an antique grave, Tip ran out of it,...

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Molly happy see Ammm," she said. The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and Molly had actually chosen the one denoting the happiness derived from having one's belly tickled by seaweed.

Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out.

In our language," he said, "Alf means squid poop.