Quotes About Interpretation

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.

A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

A message is not delivered until it is understood.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.

Dawn," Thymara scoffed. "I think the dragons meant, "After we wake up and when we feel like it.

It was all in your mind," Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

No one truly understands a prophecy until it comes true.

That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.

It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

I don't see any humor in this," she snapped. Rurisk and I looked at one another and grinned foolishly. Smoke.

It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

Fool, cannot you ever speak plain?" I cried out in frustration. He halted as suddenly as if struck. In mid-pirouette, he lowered his heels to the floor and stood like a statue. "Would it help any?" he asked soberly. "Would you listen to me if I came to you and did not speak in riddles? Would that make you pause and think and hang upon every word, and ponder those words later, in your chamber?

Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I'm told that the Chinese character for catastrophe is the same as that which represents opportunity.