Quotes About Interpretation

You know the way they have mouths that don't seem to smile in the same way as normal people's.

It's like life," Clennen said. "You may wonder what goes on inside, but what matters is the look of it and the kind of performance we give.

I know Brian is nasty, but I had always thought it was his situation before this,' Nirupam remarked.... Charles could not answer at once, because he was not sure that a person's character could be separate from his situation in quite this way.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

Poetry is a kind of knowing, a way of looking at the ordinary until it becomes special and the exceptional until it becomes commonplace.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

There's no way that can be the river, Rhiow said. Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central-- Saash said. It's backward, Rhiow snapped, thank you very much, I know all about it. Is it? Saash said. Which direction are you coming at it from? Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.

Meowing is not counted here, since cats rarely seem to meow at each other. That type of vocalization is usually a pidgin language used for getting human's attention: the cat equivalent of Just talk to them clearly and loudly and they'll get what you mean sooner or later.

They took her intent and read that too, turning it into fact.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

There must be more to stories than you think.

He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.

Kita hidup seperti penonton yang datang terlambat ke bioskop: kita harus mengejar ketertinggalan sebaik-baiknya, menebak permulaan dari bentuk peristiwa-peristiwa lanjutannya.

For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story.

How horribly dull. I could never have been a biographer. Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?" "Not in the stories you have told the world so far.

I needed a lost language. One in which I could communicate with the lost.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book.

Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had to be scrutinized afresh every minute of every day. No; in order to free ourselves from the mundane it is essential that we delegate much of our interpretation of the world to that lower area of the mind that deals with the presumed, the assumed, the probable.

I left wide margins. In the left-hand one I noted any mannerisms, expressions and gestures that seemed to add something to her meaning. The right-hand margin I left blank. Later, rereading, it was here that I would enter my own thoughts, comments, questions.

Cuando escribo, incluso ahora mientras estoy escribiendo esta frase, esta palabra, soy consciente de la presencia de un lector fantasma que se inclina sobre mi hombro y contempla mi pluma, que tergiversa mis palabras y distorsiona mi significado, haciéndome sentir incómoda incluso en la intimidad de mis propios pensamientos.

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.