Quotes About Interpretation

Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

The greatest artists express their inner self

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.