Quotes About Interpretation

Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.

To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

The most beautiful videos come from reading poetry. And they're in your head.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.

Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?

She stood in our cramped little bathroom, a bag of cosmetics in hand. Putting on her makeup while asking if we should buy a couch meant she'd already made up her mind that we were going to IKEA today, and asking me if we ought to go was her way of saying "Get your shoes on." It's dizzying, all the versions of meanings available to the listener.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

This is a painting that is at best one-third "I love religion so I'm gonna paint my favorite religious figures enjoying a meal" and at least two-thirds "Bro, my vanishing point is off the hook, seriously, check out my wall rectangles, you don't even know.

You say monster, I say martyr. You say murder, I say self-defense. You say legal, I say defective law.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.

I sat silent before the book, and the book unsealed its lips and revealed to me things I had never heard before. When I was tired of studying I thought many thoughts, and this is one of them: Many generations ago a wise man wrote a book and he did not know of this man who sits here, but in the end all his words prove to be meant for him.

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

Writers are not prophets. We see one thing, one problem in different conditions and from different angles, and whatever we understand we present to the world, and we never force it to accept it.

Halbuki en çok okudu?um bir kitab?n en çok okudu?um bir sat?r? bile bana bazan ba?ka ?eyler söyleyebilir.

Halbuki en çok okudu?um bir kitab?n en çok okudu?um bir sat?r? bile bana bazen ba?ka ?eyler söyleyebilir.

To write history, after all, is to read meaning into the events of the past on the basis of contemporary views of reality. The events themselves cannot make sense until they are filtered through the human lens.

Morality always differs from person to person, according to time, place, situation—and convenience.

The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception.

I knew that no one would kill you quicker than a Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.