Quotes About Interpretation

SO MUCH (INSPIRED BY MR. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS) BY JACK So much depends upon a black kitten dotted with white beside a photo of my yellow dog

And what of those who didn't know him? What happens, too, when all who knew him are dead, when people know only what they've been told? What truth will we be talking about, then?

for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya'q?b of Aleppo never doubted it, either.

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the safety of easier-tolive-with invention.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

A computer needs words to stay the same over long periods of time. A computer can't deal with a word that means one thing one year, another the next, or that slides from innocence into stupidity as silly did.

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

Unlike scientific truths, which are cumulative and frequently superseded, archaisms are fixed, impervious to evidence. What is the doctrine of "the framers' original intent" and "constitutional originalism" but a variant of creationism and the denial of historical evolution

Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

Dzilobommo considera el efecto de su comida en los comensales como un pintor considera el efecto de su cuadro sobre un observador.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not green. He says everything is a matter of perception.

Everything, everything, everything can be installation art

That's just a fancy way of calling me a liar," I said. "If the moccasin fits, then wear it," she said.

I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it.

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn't you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)

Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is 'grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock' supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.