Quotes About Interpretation

It's not what you think," Vince said from the mouth of the hall. He didn't turn, so she couldn't even try to interpret his expression. The humor had left his voice, though. "Oh, yeah?" she called after him. "Then why are you leaving?" "Because it's worse.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller. And she's the one who shaded the tale so we'd feel whatever way we feel about him in the first place.

Oooooooh,' says Jack, correctly interpreting my silence for a confession. 'Is he your lover? Is this a ballad we're in?' 'A murder ballad maybe,' I growl. 'No doubt, by the end,' he says. 'I wonder who will survive to compose it.

Stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

His smile said that she'd given the wrong answer.

Ik heb raar gedroomd.' 'Laat me eens raden. Je werd vastgebonden door vrouwelijke ninja's. Met dikke tieten.' 'Eh, nee.'... 'Het zou ook wel een beetje raar zijn geweest als we allebei dezelfde droom hadden gehad.

You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "because everything does.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Events which seem to us dramatic are nothing more than subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy according to the bent of our characters.

Ma chi può lusingarsi di essere compreso? Moriamo tutti incompresi. È il detto delle donne e quello degli scrittori.

I think it would be a good stunt to get along without any art at all for a generation, and see what we miss.

It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.

Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.

only difference between fear and excitement is the exhalation?

admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen too intently and empathetically and filter everything through her own emotions.

word and its implications from every angle.

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.