Quotes About Interpretation

Ensin värit. Sitten ihmiset. Sillä tavoin minä yleenä asiat näen. Tai ainakin yritän.

Si domandò quando esattamente i libri e le parole avessero incominciato a significare non solamente qualcosa, ma tutto.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words stated not just to mean something, but everything.

No mezclo nada, sólo repito lo que tu dijiste. Lo que uno cuenta y lo que sucede de verdad no suele coincidir, Rudy, sobre todo contigo.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started not just to mean something, but everything.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything

Arschloch podría traducirse por imbécil, y no distingue entre el femenino y el masculino. Uno simplemente lo es.

Jedna byla zlodÄ›jka knih. Ten druhý kradl oblohu.

the music would look Liesel in the face. I know it sounds strange, but that's how it felt to her.

From Liesel's position, their voices were only sounds. Not words at all.

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for content are illusioned.

Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along.

Mediumul este mesajul.

The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...

we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is—the

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.

Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way.

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on.