Quotes About Interpretation

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.

The body says what words cannot.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.

The body never lies." Martha Graham

Dancing is very like poetry.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery

I knew interpreting the emotional subtext in the speech and apperance of real humans was completely different from interpreting it in shows and serials. (For one thing, the shows and serials were trying to communicate with the viewer. As far as I could tell, real humans usually didn't know what the hell they were doing.)

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

That's mostly a metaphor. My uneaten client stat is high.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.

It's joking." Ratthi managed to sound like he completely believed that. "That's how it looks when it's joking." He sent me on the feed, Stop joking.

Lots of shifting diagrams and numbers that might as well have been abstract art as far as I was concerned.

I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I can't easily interpret.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

Grannie Jane raised an eyebrow. "A word of advice, Agatha dear, as you go forward into the world. Remember at all times with whom you are speaking and how your words may be interpreted by those hearing them.