Quotes About Interpretation

So often, below the word spoken, is the thing known and unspoken. My characters tell me so much and no more… most of the time we're inexpressive, giving little away, unreliable, elusive, evasive, obstructive, unwilling. But it's out of these attributes that a language arises. A language, I repeat, where under what is said, another thing is being said.

I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father." I

Apparently deciding what it was easier to define primitive baptistry than closed communion, Miss Maudie said: 'Foot-washers believe anything that's pleasure is a sin. Did you know some of 'em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?' 'Your flowers, too?' 'Yes ma'am, They'd burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time in God's outdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible.

No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.

There was no mistaking it, Albert had stuck out his tongue at her. She was pregnant.

it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change:

I wonder if your eyes and ears ever make anything save spasmodic contact with your brain.

Mr. Clinton," he had said, when Henry ventured to inquire about a particularly ambiguous examination, "you may write until doomsday for all I care, but if your answers do not coincide with my answers they are wrong. Wrong, sir.

Atticus, you are rewriting history." "No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.

Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. To Alexandra, there was a distinct and distasteful difference between one who paints and a painter, one who writes and a writer.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

Shut up, Jean Louise. I'm trying to make you see his motive:

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of oh, of your father

The poetry was so ahead of its time no one has deciphered it yet

Sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.

When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." ? Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

It takes Burnett only a moment to figure out what I'm talking about, but says, 'I'm on it. What's wrong with your voice?' 'I'm eating biscuits.' 'You're eating biscuits?' Burnett is obviously still a bit sleepy, since I couldn't have made myself much clearer. 'Yes, sir. I'm eating biscuits. Stolen chocolate digestives. Oh, also, we're going to need some ambulances.' 'Ambulances?' 'Sir, is this a new game where you repeat everything I say?

Just because some people saw the handwriting on the wall didn't mean they could get anyone else to read it too.

If it's going to a company, use a Substitute thought. For example, if it's an electric bill, see electricity (lightning) shooting out of a mailbox.