Quotes About Interpretation

When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.

Sri Lanka's interpretation of western cuisine is pretty diabolical. Sri Lankan food itself is ace, however, and they bloody love a buffet. Even if you go to a basic-looking cafe, they can knock up four or five different curries for you very quickly.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values.

Americans might not understand, but within Korea, Big Bang was one of the first artists to make their own production. We have our own interpretation of our own songs. We do our own thing.

If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

You are all right. But you are all wrong too. For each of you touched only one part of the animal.

But GAAP rules are not what most people might think of as "rules." They don't take the form of imperatives, such as "Count this expense exactly this way" or "Count this revenue exactly that way." They are guidelines and principles, and so are open to interpretation and judgment calls.

Remember, accounting is the art of using limited data to come as close as possible to an accurate description of how well a company is performing.

Aiyaaaa," Zheng said softly. And if that meant "holy shit," I agreed.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.