Quotes About Interpretation

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He'd turned heaven into hell.

Ruth whacked the seat beside her on the sofa, in what could only be interpreted as an invitation. It was like receiving a personalized Molotov cocktail. Gamache

the clatter of pots and pans and dishes. To others it was a cacophony. To Anton it was a symphony.

She was beginning to see how quickly something completely normal could suddenly seem sinister, if you chose to see it that way.

He looked at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows. And bright blues. All intermingled. They formed no image. And he got no feeling. He closed his eyes. Paused. When he opened them, he let the painting come to him. To enter through his heart, not his head. With Clara's painting, like all great works of creation, there was more than met the eye.

The book was called How to Lie with Statistics.

You're an artist," said Reine-Marie. "Do you think a work should be judged by its creator? Or should it stand on its own?

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One of Gilbert's favorite quotes was from Henry David Thoreau. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Gracie might, or might not, be a dog. The smart money was now on guinea pig, with hedgehog a close second.

Your statistics might be right—" "They are." "—but your conclusions are wrong.

Henry David Thoreau. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

Wat betekent dat, als een jongen zijn hand op je borst legt? Betekent het dat hij een geilneef is? Of was zijn hand gewoon moe?

What in the name of Buddha's bra is he going on about now?

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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

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