Quotes About Interpretation

Then, first of all, let us admit that there is no such thing as objectivity, no such objective fact as objectivity. Objectivity is a fabricated concept, a synthetic intellectual construction...

She'll have to learn the symbolism of the revolution," somebody said. "But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?" I asked.

This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Humans see what they want to see.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Carter, not to be unkind, I said, but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia everywhere . Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes. It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!

So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.

But it's your Oracle, I protested. Can't you tell us what the prophecy means? Apollo sighed. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.

The thing about talking swords…it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.

How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.

You Keep Using the Word Help. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

That's Narmer with the spoon," I guessed. "Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

Sam's body language looked pretty stiff. I was too far away to hear, but I imagined her conversation with Alex was something like: Sam: Awkward. Alex: Awkward, awkward. Sam (nodding): Awkward, awkward, awkward.

You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo

You can't read ancient Greek?" I asked. "And you can't tell a strawberry from a yam," she retorted.

We watched Alex walking away. What just happened? I asked him. There are no words for it in sign language, he said.

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.