Quotes About Interpretation

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been spent in the dark back-room of a shop in some town, she would now perhaps have been kindled by the lyric surgings of nature which only normally reach us as through the interpretation of a writer.

This man, who was so experienced in love, couldn't distinguish the dissimilarity in the emotions, behind the similarity of the expressions.

Amad el arte. De todas las mentiras es la menos mentirosa.

Het woord is trouwens net een mangel die gevoelens gladstrijkt.

All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.

There is no truth, only perception.

La parole est un laminoir qui allonge toujours les sentiments

Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it.

La parole éblouit et trompe, parce qu'elle est mimée par le visage, parce qu'on la voit sortir des lèvres, et que les lèvres plaisent et que les yeux séduisent. mais les mots noirs sur le papier blanc, c'est l'âme toute nue.

The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. DON MIGUEL RUIZ, THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM

From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl…as it's flushing. With the lights off.

Words are the facial expressions of your mind: They communicate your attitude, personality, and perspective.

Primero tienes que experimentar lo que quieres expresar.» Vincent Van Gogh

You have first to experience what you want to express. —Vincent van Gogh

Ideas and theories, I have suggested, are like quicksilver in our hands. We can lose an idea altogether by being too tight fisted or too open handed, but if we carry an idea we cannot avoid imposing our own shape upon it. And when we do, we ought to know what we have done, for only in this way does the practice of history raise the consciousness of us all.

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen.

It is not unusual for the central menace of a work of horror fiction to be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.