Quotes About Interpretation

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then you write from their perspective.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.

How could something as significant to one person mean so little to another?

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

All this I learned about Julia, bit by bit, from the stories she told, from guesswork, knowing her, from what her friends said, from the odd expressions she now and then let slip, from occasional dreamy monologues of reminiscences; I learnt it as one does learn the former — as it seems at the time, the preparatory — life of a woman one loves, so that one thinks of oneself as part of it, directing it by devious ways, towards oneself.

Writing for nobody? Impossible. You fumble, you stop. I don't even take the trouble of expressing myself so that when I reread myself I can understand whatever it was I was trying to say. Gilles will figure it out, he'll work it through.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too.

She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.

What's death to me is just a lot of words to you. You put em' together so pretty.

At first this quality of hers somehow irritated Amory. He considered his own uniqueness sufficient, and it rather embarrassed him when she tried to read new interests into him for the benefit of what other adorers were present. He felt as if a polite but insistent stage manager were attempting to make him give a new interpretation of a part he had conned for years.

Afterwards he remembered one reply of hers to something he had asked her. He remembered it in this form – perhaps he had unconsciously arranged and polished it.

Az ember vagy megért mindent, vagy mindent magától értetÅ'dÅ'nek vesz.

It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Technically excellent, perhaps, but not convincing.

Art is meaningless in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.