Quotes About Interpretation

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

O critic? "negativ? se realizeaz? str?lucitor pe lucidit??i m?runte. Lucrul acesta îl ÅŸtia pân? ÅŸi Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simÅ£ care s-a revoltat c? poetul compar? ochii iubitei cu dou? stele, c?ci este absurd s? g?seÅŸti o asem?nare între ochii mari, negri ÅŸi stelele mici, argintii.

IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.

Continuându-ÅŸi lectura, Domnul Smith, plesc?ie.

Poezia este destinata poeziei si nu publicului. Poetul nu are nevoie de public. Publicul confunda poezia cu sansoneta.

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: "For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions." 14

Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believe, that's the only truth!

In the end, life becomes literature, and literature has meaning because life has meaning.

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood

How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can't. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

It's a man's job to decide which of a woman's fictions to maintain..." Allan couldn't remember who said that, but it still rang true.

We figure that's their

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

Each one helps us understand that our points of view are shaped by what we see, what we've been told, and, lastly, how we process it all.

But to paraphrase the Supreme Court's statement about obscenity, when it comes to patterns, I know them when I see them.

There are only two audible words on the entire tape from this man and you think he's the pope?" He asks me this as if he's a father questioning me, his teenage daughter, about the dent in the family car. Do men see these power relationships in the same way? Do other women? I put that question on the side burner.

The colour red doesn't actually exist,' she said. 'It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.

He didn't sing the words, he inebriated them.

A family is a group of people who have different versions of the same experience.