Quotes About Interpretation

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Men play the game; women know the score.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

You see, its never the environment; its never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events how we interpret them that shapes who we are today and who well become tomorrow.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

Your eyes are like a mirror... and what you see in me is a reflection of you.

What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a reaction and in a painting, a heart.

Our emotional reactions depend on the story we tell ourselves, the running commentary in the mind that interprets the data we receive through our senses.

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit.

Some say history is made by the winners. Sometimes, it's rewritten by an author.

Those like Brasini and those who are not like Brasini. Those who would take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films and those who would never in ten million years take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films. ...You are definitely a Brasini, sir. ...the Brasini theory,....

The Artwork as Misunderstanding There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there was something to take off.