Quotes About Interpretation

We learned that we are the stories we tell ourselves, and so we have to tell those stories with great care. Because whatever stories we tell ourselves, are true.

the world is neither intrinsically fair nor exact; it is composed of subtleties that require less simplistic approaches.

To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite.

And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. 

if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed.

Your friend's beauty, said he, I should describe as elusive. It is there, but you can easily miss it. Now, in that cap, to my mind, you do miss it.

Now I'm really not getting it." "That's why you should talk to my mom. We've both received Christ and—" "Received Christ? You're not gonna be like those people that go around knocking on everybody's door, are you?

Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

The empty look on Beans's face indicated that the answer had reached his ears, but no farther.

Ptolemy Horoscope is an astrologer and interpreter of the stars. In 1716 he is living in Little Britain, the "bibliopolitical part of London

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

People expect a story to always mean the same thing, but I have found that stories change like people do.

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.

The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis

Everyone sees the same movie, but every reader experiences a different book, because reading involves you in hours of active, creative work, the characters, their movements and thoughts re-created in your own mind, their struggles and triumphs connecting to your own until a book becomes like a piece of music you've played—and sometimes mastered—over a period of days, or weeks.

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character—what we believe—none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!" Debra

All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point?

all we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character--what we believe--none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role models. Their work is enough.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

What is meant by 'nut bag'? Is that a testicular reference or merely the identification of a satchel of cashews or pecans?

Here's the truth. We want to read too much into life because it's convenient. Or fun. But there's no imaginary, invisible man in the sky who makes things happen.

You know I have trouble with colloquialisms, so I resent your shocked reaction.

Maladies, poorly interpreted, can't be cured.