Quotes About Interpretation

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

My hope is that I can characterize something with enough emphasis that it is very different from myself, the actor. If

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

Blake, I know you don't live on Butt St, Uranus.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

My gentle Reader, I perceive, How patiently you've waited, And now I fear that you expect Some tale will be related. O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

Some people say I sing behind the beat, but I'm in front of it sometimes too. I know where I am, and that's where I want to be.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Art brings the unseen into the world. That's why I don't paint what I see, or things based on old paintings. I paint what I dream. I'm bringing the other world into this one.

it would be well worth your time to start keeping a codebook, listing all the objects, people, and situations that seem to recur in your Image Streams together with what you think they might mean

Max Müller took advantage of the new insights of his time into the IE languages and attempted to explain the development of Greek mythology, not by questioning the facts but by analyzing the language used in mythology. His main point was that mythology arose because people misunderstood poetic language used in the admiration of nature and interpreted it as narrative language about divine beings.

Demarcating the border between sense and nonsense makes interpretive frames reflexive and therefore serves as a catalyst for exploring the very parameters of learning.

In studying the types in the Old Testament, especially in the books of Exodus and Leviticus, the most difficult thing is to see how to apply these types to our daily

The brass means, "Not I," and the lily means, "But Christ.