Quotes About Interpretation

The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might give you a rose because he feels you are beautiful, or because he fancies their shade or shape or softness similar to your lips. Roses are expensive, and perhaps he wishes to show through a valuable gift that you are valuable to him.

Does six strike you as a good number?" I didn't know what he was getting at. "Six isn't exactly a lucky number," I hedged. "If I were looking for a good number I'd have to go up to seven." I shrugged. "Or down to three.

Quizá un objeto adquiera belleza con el uso. -Quizá un objeto se use según su belleza.

So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, 'You are beautiful?'" Tempi shook his head. "No. You would say simply 'beautiful,' and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.

No hay nada que no pueda explicarse. Si algo se puede entender, se puede explicar. Puede ser que alguien no sepa explicarlo bien. Pero eso solo significa que es difícil explicarlo, no que sea imposible.

Nuestras formas de hablar son como dibujos de nombres. Nombres vagos, débiles, pero nombres al fin y al cabo. Ten cuidado con ellos.

Una vez le canté los colores a un ciego. Toqué durante siete horas, pero al final me dijo que los veía: verde, rojo y dorado. Creo que eso fue más fácil que lo que intento hacer ahora. Tratar de que la entendáis describiéndola solo con palabras. Vosotros nunca la habéis visto ni habéis oído su voz. No podéis entenderlo.

Una sonrisa, por ejemplo, puede significar que estás divertido, feliz, agradecido o satisfecho. Puedes sonreír para consolar a alguien. Puedes sonreír porque estás contento o porque estás enamorado. Una sonrisa compungida o una sonrisa de burla no se distinguen mucho de una sonrisa de alegría, pero significan cosas muy diferentes.

The figures of our speaking are like pictures of names. Vague, weak names, but names nonetheless. Be mindful of them.

Tõde ja see, mida me soovime tõde olevat, on erinevad asjad.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.

Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eben diesen Bleistift zu zeichnen, und zwar auf dem Bleistift sebst. Unmöglich. Verwirrend. Frustrierend.

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

Such was our conversation. But not only were we lacking touch to guide us, it was as if we were also strangely deaf. So we danced very carefully, unsure what music the other was listening to, unsure, perhaps, if the other was dancing at all.

Your next lesson is this: all women are the same height lying down.

I do not understand this man," he said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

when learners focus primarily on meaning, they may not be able to also pay attention to the sounds that make up the words.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?