Quotes About Interpretation

She would rather see for herself; she doesn't trust Tobias to interpret; she suspects him of holding things back.

She's taken to renaming him according to her own analysis of his mood of the day, or his mood of the hour, or his mood of the minute: according to her, he's moody. Each mood is personified and given an honorific, so he's Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Sleepy, Dr. Ironic, Sir Sardonic, and sometimes, when she's being sarcastic or possibly nostalgic, Mr. Romantic.

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.

To them it was a pleasurable outing. What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.