Quotes About Interpretation

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

Your body said one thing. Your words said another." It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position," it said. "I'll stop now if you like.

Good stories are good stories, no matter how they're categorized.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Chiedete a sette persone che cosa significa tutto ciò e otterrete sette risposte diverse. Allora cos'è Dio? Solo un altro nome per qualsiasi cosa ci faccia sentire speciali e protetti?

I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once we did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though we had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you'll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.

His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn't know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting in Hollywood.

Touched by poetry, language is more fully language and at the same time is no longer language: it is a poem.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including—most significantly—how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it.

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.

Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.

Wie pani, czasem mam wra?enie, ?e ?yjemy w ?wiecie, który sobie wymy?lamy. Ustalamy sobie, co jest dobre, a co nie, rysujemy mapy znacze?... A potem ca?e ?ycie zmagamy si? z tym, co?my sobie wykoncypowali. Problem polega na tym, ?e ka?dy ma swoj? wersj?, i dlatego tak trudno jest si? ludziom dogada?.

In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;

Prawda jest jak s?kacz, sk?ada si? z wielu warstw, które kr?c? si? wokó? siebie, raz siebie zawieraj?, a raz same s? zawierane przez inne. Prawda to jest co?, co mo?na wyra?a? wieloma opowie?ciami, bo jest jak ten ogród, do którego weszli m?drcy: ka?dy widzia? co innego.

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

Gdyby umie? spojrze? tak, jak Jenta to widzi, zobaczy?oby si?, ?e w istocie ?wiat sk?ada si? ze s?ów, które raz powiedziane, roszcz? sobie odt?d pretensje do wszelkiego porz?dku i wszystko wydaje si? dzia? pod ich dyktando, wszystko im podlega.

The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.