Quotes About Interpretation

You business', sagte er dann. 'Kill why?' Sie lächelte, um zu zeigen, dass sie nicht verstand. 'Everything', sagte der Mann. 'Foam. Lorry?' Sie hob die Schultern. 'Hobble', sagte der Mann. 'Hobble grease. Why?' Sie lächelte verkrampft. 'Why?' Der Mann klopfte an die Scheibe. 'Grease, the hobble why!

The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists our participation in the process of responsible interpretation and critical appropriation.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

The stranger is often a person who can see and understand the context much better than a person who has lived there for a thousand years

Histories, like all products of disciplinary knowledge, are made in the context of what their own frames will allow. It is the frames that one must stretch and bend.

The bottom line is this: the brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist's hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.

the only thing these facts clearly show is that people tend to see what they want to see.

One learns a lot if others assume you are deaf to their tongue.

We all need narrative to make sense of the world.

The idea was that consumption was a symbolic system we use but we don't understand, in the same way that we speak language clearly without being able to give a lesson in grammar.

Statisticamente tutto si spiega, personalmente tutto si complica.

Quando una persona cara ci dà un libro da leggere, la prima cosa che facciamo è cercarla fra le righe, cercare i suoi gusti, i motivi che l'hanno spinta a piazzarci quel libro in mano.

Le monde entier est dans ce que nous disons - et tout entier éclairé par ce que nous taisons. (p. 34)

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians of the temple, boasting of its wonders in the very words that slam shut it's doors: Reading matters! Reading matters!

La lettura, atto di comunicazione? Ecco un'altra simpatica frottola da commentatori! Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo.

In giro per la città si trasforma nell'instancabile doppio della grande epistola pubblicitaria... FORD, BANCA POPOLARE, COCA-COLA, le parole gli cadono dal cielo, le loro sillabe colorate gli esplodono in bocca. Non una sola marca di detersivo resiste alla sua passione per la decifrazione. «'La-va-più-bian-co', cosa vuol dire 'lavapiùbianco?» Poiché è giunta l'ora delle domande cruciali.

Parlare di un'opera a degli adolescenti, e pretendere da loro che ne parlino può rivelarsi molto utile, ma non è un fine in sé. Il fine è l'opera. L'opera nelle loro mani. E il primo dei loro diritti, in materia di lettura, è il diritto di tacere.

Los diccionarios solo garantizan una pizca de eternidad...

Da questo punto di vista, per un buon percorso di studi letterari la strategia conta almeno quanto la capacità di comprendere i testi. E un - cattivo studente- è, più spesso di quanto si creda, un ragazzino tragicamente privo di doti tattiche. Solo che, preso dal terrore di non darci quel che ci aspettiamo da lui, comincia subito a confondere studi scolastici e cultura.