Quotes About Interpretation

Let's just put it this way: I don't think I'll be able to twerk my way out of this.— —Don't know what twerk means, Melanthe.—

I had an uncanny knack for sizing up males—I was a regular "manalyst." My secret? I always went negative, and the guys, well, they always accommodated.

Soothsayerese? I don't speak it," he said, but she didn't elaborate. "That's all you're going to divvy?" "Wanna know more?" Nïx raised her brows. "Then you should have let me lick your horns.

Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.

I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

it depends on whose reality you're using for rules. You just have to remember that, and then you can see that nothing should be taken absolutely seriously. Personally, I always like to use my own reality as a standard.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings.

Att vara expert på de religiösa texterna innebär att man vet precis vilka stycken man ska läsa och vilka man ska hoppa över .

The story of sacred texts has always been the story of their readers: of shifting and often clashing interpretations.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

The learned scientists named ev'ry blamed thing they come across, an' gener'ly they picked out names as nobody could understand or pernounce.

I composed it myself! said the Fiddler Crab. But it's highly classical, I admit. All really great music is an acquired taste.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.