Quotes About Interpretation

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.

Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.

Naš zadatak odgovara prije svega jednoj historijskoj zada?i. Nijedna tema nije tabu za histori?are kao što ni zamke ni presije svake vrste - politi?ke, ideološke, li?ne - ne smije sprije?iti da se slijedi put saznavanja, ekshumacije i interpretacije ?injenica, naro?ito ako su bile dovoljno sakrivane u tajni arhiva i savjesti. ....To je moralna obaveza odavanja po?asti mrtvima, naro?ito kada su nevine i anonimne žrtve Moloha koji ima apsolutnu vlast...

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that—if Herodotus can be believed—was "unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.

Differences of opinion should not be construed as differences of principle.

a man who spoke no English, who would argue that whole conversations could be sustained in that language with the use of a single word (Goddamn)

Aesop's fable: As the Lion said to the Man, "There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

The truth is smudged forever by Roman manhandling. (218)

in the absence of facts, myth rushes in

her history written by her enemies

From a chemical analysis of the ink with which a letter is written to us, we will never deduce the intellectual attributes of the writer.

It depends on what your definition of 'is' is," he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not only at the ridiculousness of the statement, but at the tenacity and toughness of a true Machiavelli who would not, could not, let his enemies use their version of the truth to defeat him.

Postmodernism is the Enlightenment gone mad.

Each of us embodies the divine. Our ultimate spiritual authority is within, and we need no other person to interpret the sacred to us. We foster the questioning attitude, and we honor intellectual, spiritual, and creative freedom.

Åžiir okumak aptalca. Okumak için deÄŸil yazmak için var ÅŸiir.

Perché le idee (sventagliata) sono come le tette; se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono sempre gonfiare (risate).

Acting is in everything but the words.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.