Quotes About Interpretation

for most (lyric) of what I do, the idea behind it was to try and bring a novelist's eye to it, and, within the framework of rock and roll, to try to have the lyric there so somebody who enjoys being engaged on that level could have that and have the rock and roll too.

Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,

Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: "You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. . . . If you see through everything, then everything is transparent.  But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world.  To see through all things is the same as not to see." 

No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only and solely in the eye of the beholder.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

Communication is everything to you artists. You can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author.

Edgar Allan Poe widzia? kruka jako starego, brzydkiego, z?owrogiego ptaka. W zachodniej literaturze wiele jest takich negatywnych odniesie?. Jednak z symbolami jest tak, jak z innymi rzeczami w ?yciu cz?owieka: co dla jednego jest zbawieniem, dla drugiego mo?e by? gwo?dziem do trumny.

System jest jak ogon prawdy, a prawda jest jak jaszczurka, zostawia swój ogon w twoich r?kach i bierze nogi za pas, wiedz?c, ?e nowy ogon uro?nie jej w mgnieniu oka". Tak to wyrazi? Iwan Sergiejewicz Turgieniew, znakomity pisarz rosyjski. A tak to przedstawi? Chris: Czasami rzeczywisto?? bywa z?udna. A tak Rashomon Kurosawy: "je?li chodzi o rzeczywisto??, to tak naprawd? ona nie istnieje".

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

For the first time in my life the beautiful story made clear sense. I began to cry, overwhelmed by the emotion. For many years the Bible had been a mystery to me, but now it was an open book. This was the clincher: how could I suddenly understand the Bible when I never could before? How often had I picked it up and put it down because I couldn't make heads or tails of what it was all about? But with the Holy Spirit as my interpreter, the meanings were obvious.

there are many realities

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

I think the difficulty with people who can't follow printed directions for knitting or anything else is that they try to understand them. They read the whole thing through and it doesn't make sense to them, so they start with a defeatist attitude.

Some people feel guilty for creating illness, or poverty, or problems. They choose to interpret responsibility as guilt.

Our lives become more peaceful when we stop interpreting everything that happens to us, and instead, experience everything that happens to us—no matter what its appearance—as a blessing in disguise. When we walk our pathway in life with a "Thank you" in our hearts, a "Thank you" in our minds, and a "Thank you" on our lips, whatever fear we may have been holding on to disappears, and the purity of love reappears.

But correct and right were two different things. As were facts and truth.

When does a bush that burns become a Burning Bush?

Quote from Louise Penny a Canadian author. Wrote "How The Light Gets In" from an interview. "Having started as a voracious reader (and I still am), I know that reading is as creative as writing. The writer suggests, creates a character, a setting, an atmosphere. But it's the reader who brings it alive. Walks with the characters, sees the world, smells the wood smoke, tastes the café au lait and feels the biting cold on the tender cheek