Quotes About Interpretation

Discussing free verse if like talking about an iceberg, a shining object that is mostly underwater.

To be a truly great artist, you must learn to combine your observations with your imagination.

I get ideas for my paintings from everything! I look at a watermark on a wall and see an old woman's face. I look at a food stain on my tablecloth and see a horse! I study rain puddles and rocks and see oceans and mountains! (p.36)

a great artist has to combine observation with imagination. (p. 78)

Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.

My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.

One IGHS member said that, yup, she could hear it, too. Then again, during a dinner conversation earlier in the trip, this same woman heard "Siegfried and Roy" as "Sigmund Freud." The resulting image-Sigmund Freud with flowing hair and tigers and too much men's makeup-haunts me to this day.

It takes a certain kind of mind to interpret smidgens of fecal matter found in underwear as an ectoplasmic calling card rather than an ordinary by-product of a minor lapse in hygiene. It takes, I would think, a mildly psychotic kind of mind. Crawford's

They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner.

At an Italian deli counter, a whiff of butyric acid reads as parmesan cheese; elsewhere, vomit.

Julie Rousseau said that the researchers told her they find some of her explanations far-fetched and do not consider the case closed. It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

There is something you do with dialog that makes it sound more like our talk than our talk does.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

No leía, como hacen muchos, meramente para pasar el rato, sino que seguía interrogándose a sí misma y al autor, modelando cada idea de mil maneras, deseosa de descubrir una verdad en cada frase.

I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

half-right, half-wrong.

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.

Great thing about asking a real cab hack for directions is they'll know where you want to go. Bad thing is they give it to you in cabbie. Lots of turn left by the hobo peeing on the cat sorta stuff.

As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

feet can tell you whether a person is interested or not; how the movement of the eyes can determine whether a person is a visual, kinesthetic, or auditory thinker; and how to determine if a person is lying. Let's

The Listener's Body Language A person's body language often says more than words. After all, why wouldn't you want know if a person is uncomfortable talking about butterflies and roses because they remind her of an ex; or talking about sports when the guy next to you hardly knows the difference between the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Bears?

Recognizing body language is important if you want to become a good communicator. It

It is important to remember that body language, like the written and spoken word, relies on context. You must observe the person carefully. Is he crossing his arms because he does not enjoy my company or is he just feeling cold?