Quotes About Interpretation

What they could tell from an imprint I could barely see was astonishing. "This one old man—short steps," they'd say, touching the ground with a walking stick; or "This is woman carrying baby;" or "This one Swapo—man with gun walks proud. You see?" "Ah, yes, mm-hmm," I nodded, seeing nothing I could remotely identify as a footprint.

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So while it was clear that Raymond had a vision, Jeffery still had a hard time working out precisely what vision that might be. Is he a genius or a complete idiot? And, for that matter, what would you call Jeffery for thinking all of this?

As author Alain de Botton notes, the problem with facts is not that we need more of them, but that we don't know what to do with the ones we have.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves who we are. Just like a beautiful flower garden will look totally different in daylight as opposed to dark, the memories of our past are held hostage by our perspective.

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Judge a book for what it is...not what you want it to be

Orang awam, menurut pengalaman Strike, akan terpaku pada motif, sementara kaum professional akan menempatkan kesempatan pada urutan pertama

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.

I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan.

what's real within the story is real within the story

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify.

I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I sucked the sugar off and cheerfully ran off, spitting out the message undigested. (Despite going to church several times every Sunday for my who childhood, I never figured out Aslan was Jesus until told later.)

There's a line in Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That about sums it up. I love the first re-read of a book, when I know what is coming and am not anxious either about what will happen or whether it will continue to be good, but it isn't yet as familiar as an old slipper.

how interesting that what comes out as doing the best he could in a man looks like neglect in a woman.

E não é sem assim que as palavras tem canto e plumagem.

Não falava isto por modéstia, que nem sequer considerava uma virtude respeitável, mas por honestidade e porque queria que vissem que não existem homens especiais e que o herói pode ser qualquer um, a depender de onde esteja, do que faça e de como o que faz é interpretado pelos outros.

This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.

Are you some kind of foot fetish?

I felt he was speaking

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.