Quotes About Interpretation

La storia è costretta a indovinare. Fortuna che c'è avvezza.

oral history is ultimately ... a document that we do not find but rather cocreate inside the interview

The interview gives us access not to the experience but to a verbal rendition of the memory of that experience, generated by the presence of the interviewer.

Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress." "He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.

Numbers are not impartial and straightforward; they have baggage.

But a "case" of coronavirus refers only to a positive test result showing someone has been infected. It does not mean that a person will become sick – much less that he or she will be hospitalized, need intensive care, or die. Thus discussing the age distribution of infections, while technically not untruthful, is extremely misleading.

We're in different beds but we have the same dream." Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of "different dreams in the same bed." The implication of the saying was that no two people could fully trust each other. Even a husband and wife who'd slept beside each other for fifty years had different dreams.

The emperor of China asked his court painter, «What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?» and the answer was «Dogs are difficult, demons are easy.»

It is one thing to get all the notes right; any number of unsocialized conservatory prodigies can do that. It is another thing to play the thoughts within the notes, the light around them, the darkness behind them, the silence at the end of the phrase. That is what inspires awe.

O melhor tipo de interpretação clássica não é um recuo para o passado, mas uma intensificação do presente

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

for He could not have reminded those who witnessed His works, and heard Him preach, of all the prophets in turn, unless He had comprehended them all in His one person. The very diversity of opinion respecting Him, therefore, showed that a greater than Elias, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, had appeared.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

as lover's complaint was noted, perhaps, by the one who knew to find it, and for the rest of the room, only artistic caprice—the

Hence, from the mere jingle of words, persons and things essentially different were confounded; and Paganism and Christianity jumbled together, that the towering ambition of a wicked priest might be gratified; and so, to the blinded Christians of the apostasy, the Pope was the representative of Peter the apostle, while to the initiated Pagans, he was only the representative of Peter, the interpreter of their well-known Mysteries

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Skeptics become overwhelmed by the different and conflicting accounts of what happiness, justice, truth are all about.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Stuff the headWith all such reading as was never read:For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Means not, but blunders round about a meaning;And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad,It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.