Quotes About Interpretation

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Who was she to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to chew His gifts?

Lately," said Hubbard, "I have been considering language to be the enemy.

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

Of course, fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so their confusion is a matter of only relative importance.

Si uno de los pilotos pasaba por nuestro lado con cara seria, pensaba. «Se acabó, Estamos perdidos. Se lo leo en la cara.» Si, por el contrario, pasaba sonriendo amablemente, me decía: «La cosa debe de estar muy mal. Quiere tranquilizarnos.

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

Not every poem is a great poem, but there is something great in every poem.

FRASES A boa frase também é uma maneira de conviver com o inexprimível. Dá-se nome às coisas para domá-las.

Because a ballerina resembles a tear…

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Proprio non so come dirlo in modo che suoni veritiero: di verità ne esistono sempre come minimo due.

Where there's black, even grey looks white.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Ieri ho domandato ad un bambino di cinque anni chi fosse Gesù. Sapete cos'ha risposto? Una statua.

Yesterday I asked a five-year-old child who Jesus was. You know what he replied? A statue.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

A rose is a rose, but it is also a robin and a rabbit.

The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Of course, any book, and any piece of writing, is already part of a cooperative. It is, in itself as printed on the page, incomplete. It requires a reader to complete it. But the reader may also misunderstand it, distort it in favor of another idea, forget large parts of it, misremember it, create something different in misremembering it, etc. All these responses are perfectly legitimate parts of the cooperative act.

The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.