Quotes About Interpretation

If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

il n'y a pas de grandes ou de petites choses, il n'y a que de grandes ou petites facons de les considérer.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.

You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan.

The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.

Las explicaciones de los estilos de vida son como las patatas fritas. La gente insiste en comérselas hasta acabar con toda la bolsa.

You don't read for understanding, you read for excitement. Understanding is a product of excitement.

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

The history of art is about how we look. It is not only about the men and women who – with their paints and pencils, their clays and chisels – created the images that fill our world, from cheap trinkets to 'priceless masterpieces'. It is even more about the generations of humankind who have used, interpreted, argued over and given meaning to those images.

The more power flaunts itself in your face, the more it risks undermining its claims to be taken seriously. Ancient viewers were not all naïve consumers of any message that was thrown at them. Even if some would have looked on these statues in awe and wonderment, it is a fair guess that others would have walked by and laughed, or even spat. In the end, images of power are only as powerful as those who view them allow them to be.

Denn bei historischer Forschung geht es doch gerade darum, Fremdartigkeit zu erhalten.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett

She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.

The dang man could tell a good story fluffed with terms like gonna do and want to do but he never quite grasped the idea of did.

That was the thing about signs, they were open for interpretation. Meaning was in the eye of the beholder.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words mank and ind. What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved?

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband