Quotes About Interpretation

Tell all the truth but tell it slant- success in circuit lies Too bright for our infirm delight the truth's suberp surprise As lightning to the children eased with explanation kind the truth must dazzle gradually or every man be bilnd-

Could mortal lip divine The undeveloped freight Of a delivered syllable, 'T would crumble with the weight.

so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

Don't go giving this encounter any crazy meaning like you did with him the first time around. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.

So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

That's bad art, you know. Copying reality without interpreting it." "Mmm. But illusion is not art. It can be a tool for art, but there is nothing of genuine creation in it.

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us.

It seems that human nature is very prone to believe what it wants to believe, rather than to incur the labor of really searching the Scriptures with an open mind.

seen through

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is If it don't stink, marry it, which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Pex and Chips were closer now, discussing the merits of various fictional characters. 'Captain Hook rocks,' said Pex. 'He would kick Barney's purple butt ten times out of ten.' Chips sighed. 'You're missing the whole point of Barney. It's a values thing. Butt-kicking is not the issue.

Obviously, that's a translation.)

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?

Probeer je te suggereren dat ik wel eens buiten mijn boekje ga?' vroeg Holly, die van het idee alleen blijkbaar al gruwelde. Foaly gniffelde. 'Ik probeer te suggereren dat je misschien niet zelf een exemplaar van het boekje hebt en dat je het, mocht je er wel een hebben, in elk geval nog nooit hebt opengedaan.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.