Quotes About Interpretation

Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

An instant's visitor the godhead shone. On life's thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth's pondering forehead curve. Interpreting a recondite beauty and bliss In colour's hieroglyphs of mystic sense, It wrote the lines of a significant myth Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns, A brilliant code penned with the sky for page.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little: to suggest it, that is the ideal.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

What is more hilarious than carved marble pubic hair? Thank you. Don't mention it.

J'ai rencontré quelqu'un qui avait si peu lu qu'il devait inventer lui-même ses citations de classiques.

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

All departures from the mere accommodation of function are laden with messages, often very eloquent ones, and it is a critical part of the interior designer's education to become adept at reading those messages and then choosing which ones to send.

The truth is your servant, not your master. What is the truth, anyway? Does any of us really know what's true? And is truth an absolute? Can't things be sort of true? A little bit true? True in a deeper sense? True enough for military work? True for me, not for you? All too true?

From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.