Quotes About Interpretation

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they're no good.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The pessimist says opportunities are NO WHERE. The optimist says opportunities are NOW HERE. Both see the same words, but read it differently. That's Life!

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible

Men say women should come with instructions.. what's the point of that? Have you ever seen a man actually read the instructions?

A quiet man, is a thinking man. A quiet woman, is usually mad.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.