Quotes About Interpretation

What we, the audience, bring when we come to the theater - what we might be feeling that day. What might have happened to us. That is a big part of what a play is.

Robinson could do with three or four facts what prehistorians achieved with stray dinosaur bones:

Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

It is wrong," he told his colleagues repeatedly, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is"—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."290

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Ontology is more like a playground than a science.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Wie willst du das wissen?«, fragte ich sie. »Du siehst mich doch gar nicht.« »Du hast geschnaubt. Wenn du auf diese Art schnaubst, siehst du immer dämlich aus.«

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair.

We carve up the world and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces, decibels. All these things and what to do with them. We carve up the world all the time.

I have told you where I'm coming from, so put it together.

Is there an acceptable result? Do we mean something when we talk?

To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.

Let's say that God is the space between two men and the Devil is the space between two men.

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair. He is looking at the wall and I am looking at his looking. Difficult thing, to be scrutinized so long. I find parts that overlap with mine and light them up in clays and creams, yellow music singing pink, the flicker of his mouth a purple rust.

This is how you make the meaning, you take two things and try to define the space between them.