Quotes About Interpretation

Words are only words

How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved.

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

Where causation is concerned, a grain of wise subjectivity tells us more about the real world than any amount of objectivity.

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb. Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

average person has five dreams per night, typically of increasingly greater length. Many mystic traditions suggest that the last dream of the series, the one just before waking, usually possesses the most spiritual significance.

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

Az ? korában, akárcsak a miénkben, az érzelmeket jelentéssel ruházták fel, de míg a huszadik században az érzelmeket a tapasztalás eredményének, a küls? események végs?, lelki termékének tekintjük, a tizenhetedik században ezek önmagukban jelentettek tapasztalást; az érzelmek adtak értelmet és formát a történéseknek, és ezek igazolták az erkölcsi igazságokat.

People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.

It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

Kohtalokas luonteenpuute. Kasvot joita voi lukea kuin avointa kirjaa.

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

Couldn't help it, he insisted. My dad would bell me to draw a flower and it would turn into a Venus flytrap chewing on a hand.

Bir sanat eseri, bilinçsiz olarak söyle?ilen bir ba?ka ki?i i?levi görür.

Genel olarak sanat ve mimarl???n görevi de salt birer izleyici olmakla kalmay?p, ayr?lmazcas?na ait oldu?umuz farkl?la?mam?? bir iç dünya deneyimini yeniden kurmakt?r. Sanatsal yap?tlarda varolu?sal anlama yetisi tam da dünyayla kar??la?mam?zdan ve dünyada -olmakl???m?zdan do?ar- kavramsalla?t?r?lamaz ve anl?kla?t?r?lamaz.

Sanatç?lar?n ve mimarlar?n sözel ifadeleri genel olarak itibari de?erleriyle ele al?nmamal?d?r, zira ço?u zaman yüzeydeki bilinçli birer rasyonalizasyon ya da savunmadan ibarettirler ve pekala yap?ta bizzat dirimsel gücünü veren derin bilinçd??? niyetlerle keskin bir kar??tl?k bir kar??tl?k içinde olabilmektedirler.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Principles are conventions and definitions in disguise.

The silences of history must be made to speak [Il faut faire parler les silences de l'histoire].

Das Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit und hat niemals behauptet, einer zu sein. Das Recht besteht aus Gesetzen, Gesetze bestehen aus Wörtern, und Wörter können manches sein, sicher aber nicht gerecht.