Quotes About Interpretation

all humans are given the same set of primary-metaphor building blocks, but different language and cultural groups put the blocks together in different ways. Some individuals even force the blocks together in ways that don't fit – which is the major reason we get mixed metaphors.

The 'death' of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. 'Dead' metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally 'outlive' the specific words and expressions that involve them.

On questions relating to the human condition, no single metaphor has all the answers.

Whether metaphors are strung together like separate beads on a string, or kneaded together into a compound, it's important that we can use more than one of them.

The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won't notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

It ain't what you say: it's how you say it.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

Näytä minulle kuvia, sanoja en enää ymmärrä.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's only smoke.)

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Everything that's created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity has no beginning. Poetry or a Joke: the act of creation lies between what's self-evident and what is permanent

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.

I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu