Quotes About Interpretation

He shrugged. "I don't know either. I can't read Frog-speak.

I just think it's funny the way my brain tries to make sense of strange places by imagining its people are familiar.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

However, my argument assumes that there is a relationship between God and God's word; thus, my 'theological solution' to unjust interpretations is to be more scrupulous in aligning our readings of God's word with our conceptions of God so as to avoid attributing injustice to God.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them. My

Culture shapes and influences our life and all of our beliefs. Most people are not aware of the profound influence that culture has on us. But even if we don't realize it, we use culture to order our lives, interpret our experiences, and evaluate behavior. It's our resource for understanding our experiences and making sense of our lives. Since this is largely a mental reflex—an unconscious process

All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Yes," I answered. But I stayed awake for the rest of that long, dark night, wondering what such a dream could possibly mean.

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

a beleza está nos olhos de quem vê.

Não é o espelho que denuncia a beleza. Ela está nos olhos do observador! Não é a maciez da cama que determina o sono, mas a mente de quem dorme – afirmou Marco Polo com propriedade.

Entre paréntesis te contaré que en cierta ocasión una señorita me preguntó, para un periódico, si en lo que escribo hay algún mensaje. Yo le contesté que sí, que en todo lo que escribo hago llamados a la rebelión y a la revolución, pero desgraciadamente en una forma tan sutil que por lo general mis lectores se vuelven reaccionarios).

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.

Pursued alone, any single model will lead to distortions. It will misplace the accent, and thus entail consequences that are not valid.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

what we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world."71