Quotes About Interpretation

Art." Dauntra nodded. "Sure. I can't believe a guy gets paid to show off his goods, and people call it art.

finger sandwich, if I recall." "Yeah," I say. "I'm not so sure you want one of those. I looked it up a little while ago. That's when a girl has sex with two guys at once.

It isn't deep, the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. It is...too...deep! he insisted, outraged.

Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. Green wood, I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

If an author's account of any man is tidy, you must believe it has been made so in contrast with the truth, which is rarely clear and never simple.

It would be about one of life's most reliable disappointments, which is that your audience, no matter how small, is always bigger than those who actually understand what you're saying.

He didn't remember because he'd seen thousands of little fish hundreds of times, and because it didn't mean to him what it had to me.

I tried to go back and talk about what I did know. I told her about one girl he'd brought home from Cornell; I'd asked if she was his girlfriend, and he's said, When you define something, you limit it.

A picture is worth a thousand texts.

Of course," Carl's father would say, "this is just a story and stories are always a little bit true and a little bit false; we just don't know which is which.

Of course," Cal's father would say, "this is just a story and stories are always a little bit true and a little bit false; we just don't know which is which.

Dr. F picked a few up and held them under the dim reading light beside him. "The Major Arcana. Impressive.

Call it what you like.

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

No eye may see dispassionately. There is no comprehension at a glance. Only the recognition of damsel, horse or fly and the assumption of damsel, horse or fly; and so with dreams and beyond, for what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness.

The use of the commodity is the name and image of the commodity itself. Use-value is irrelevant to the form of consumption – and fantasy, wish, or interpretation – that seals the relation of image to consciousness. In the 'real abstraction' that constitutes the fully realized industrial commodity

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.

There is always something more to be said, and it is always so difficult to turn up the splice neatly at the edges.

He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.

all narratives are lies, paths clumsily hacked through the knotted snarl of truth.

Matlock knew he should understand what that meant. He knew he should be able to work out what 'straight' meant when referring to a woman who was biologically male. He took a guess.

Good, because words are important, Trafford. Clear thinking. Logic. Precision. Above all, understanding. You can understand nothing if words can mean anything.

But these are only words and probably convey only a fraction of their meaning to the hearers. They shudder and it is forgotten.