Quotes About Interpretation

It looked both aggressive and religious at the same time, Ivan said." "Not a good combination.

Spécial" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone) is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinions.

Don't you mean the Vierge Noire, the Black Virgin?" "Uh, yes. Isn't that what I was talking about?" "Daveed, a verge is a penis.

Speciàl" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinion.

Spécial is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone) is…peculiar.

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.

a good book teaches the reader how to read it.

We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. Hence … in poetry … trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Every decoding is another encoding.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.