Quotes About Interpretation

I don't think this is about love; you are telling me we need a new description.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

Seja, portanto, humilde, respeitando o seu mapa astral, ou o de outra pessoa no momento em que o tiver diante dos olhos. Trata-se de um mapa para o reino do céu que está dentro de você, bem como uma descrição simbólica de um potencial ilimitado.

Essa iconoclastia ainda espreita em toda parte, e o diabo é o literalismo. Quando tomamos as coisas literalmente, aniquilamos o poder dos símbolos de nos fazer percorrer os vários níveis de entendimento.

Tudo aquilo que se acha num mapa é, e definitivamente deve ser, um símbolo. Sem palavras. O astrólogo, assim, o lê com o lado direito do cérebro; desse modo, as imagens surgem.

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

Als je zo naar me blijft kijken, ga ik nog denken dat je me leuk vindt,' spon ze. - Claire tegen Nick.

Wat vind je van het stuk, prinses Alice? - Will

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

Hay muchas mentes imaginativas aquí, que en ausencia de hechos se inventarán una historia interesante para rellenar el vacío. De forma que nuestra fuerza es nuestra debilidad.

So far, so good, thought Maerad, wondering how she was to explain to these people why she had come so far north. Because of a dream, because of a few clues scoured here and there, from a half-mad old Pilanel woman and a wise goatherd in Thorold--what sense could they possibly make of what she told them?

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

The world is a cornucopia of grays. I believed the romantic interpretation of Casablanca then - love lost for the good of the world - and believe it now. But it is the very ambiguity of Casablanca that keeps it current. No movie can last if it cannot find new things to say to new generations. Captain Renault, the one gray character in a black and white time, would've been amused.

Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.

Psychology finds causes of creativity that blur the difference between a Raphael and a finger painter. Everything is in that difference, which necessarily escapes our science.

E assim como só conhecemos a doutrina de Jesus pelos escritos de seus discípulos, só conhecemos a de Sócrates pelos escritos de seu discípulo Platão.

Two of the band members in Wings walked out in the same week for different reasons, and he never asked why," Henry mused. "You can take from that what you want.

I had considered orchestrating 'The Long and Winding Road' but I decided against it. I therefore want it altered to these specifications: Strings, horns, voices and all added noises to be reduced in volume. Vocal and Beatle instrumentation to be brought up in volume. Harp to be removed completely at the end of the song and original piano notes to be substituted. Don't ever do it again. Signed, PAUL McCARTNEY c.c. Phil Spector, John Eastman

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Points are not the point. The point is poetry.

It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.31,32