Quotes About Interpretation

We do not commit to believing what the biblical writers believe; we commit to believing what the affirmations of the biblical text are.

Layla had hardly looked at him since they'd left Chapel Springs except to shoot him disdainful looks. He couldn't seem to say anything right. Even when he'd complimented her appearance—and he'd meant every word—she'd twisted his words.

The poet does not use poetry, but is at the service of poetry. To use it is to misuse it.

Hugh Kenner, in a lecture, beautifully defined what poets seek if they really are poets) as "the power to make things as moving as the things they have been moved by.

Your home should give you a sense of belonging and provide a context for interpreting your life's experiences. It should be a reference place that you look forward to returning to, an anchoring point from which you venture into the world, and a place where you know that your heart resides. To gain a sense of belonging to a place, it is essential to 'ground' yourself. Even if you move often, in each location imagine sinking your roots into earth.

His head was tipped back, eyes shut tight as he murdered Neil Young's "Heart of Gold.

Than is both a conjunction and a preposition; it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Can you be more clear?" No. When I try, my beliefs or desires come out beautiful. They are beautiful to me, but I cannot understand them in that form.

You cannot understand any individual passage in Revelation unless you understand the book as a whole, but you cannot understand the hook as a whole unless you understand its individual passages.

Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded...

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real

Everyone sees different things.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

There is no objective truth in any event, insofar as the meanings we derive from it.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Art isn't the answer. It's another way of asking the question.

Am I on your page?" Jesse asked. Rosie knew Jesse liked her, loved her, maybe, but this was not about that. "Yes," Rosie said, making eye contact with Jesse. "How could you not be on my page? ... (But) even though we are on the same page, we see the page differently," Rosie had continued, enjoying the moment, "my page -- which I admit you are on -- is not the page that you think you are on. You will never see the page the same as me. You cannot look through my eyes and see what I see.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

A "Szépség" nem áll sem a csábító vonzó arc!

Ce est une idée fausse que la beauté est l'oeil du spectateur. à mon avis, la beauté doit être au cœur du spectateur pour son véritable appréciation.

No matter what you say or how many times you say, people always hear what they want to hear.

Nous nous trouvons parfois debout soit dans le milieu de malentendu malheureux, ou entrer dans totalement involontairement. Maletendus peuvent souvent survenir en raison de notre lecture indue entre les lignes, ou d'entendre les non-dits. parfois, il est prudent d'accepter et de confiance, et de prendre tout à sa valeur nominale; malgré tant de mensonges et de tromperies flagrantes tout autour.