Quotes About Interpretation

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time.

The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

We do not see things the way they are, we see them as we are. —ANAÏS NIN

The truth belongs to he who tells it, so what good is it, anyway?

that his gesture was symbolic, as Serena said. But symbolic of

Dobro pazi nanj," je rekel. In nisem vedel, ali govori meni ali Dennyju. In ?e je govoril meni, je bilo mišljeno kot ukaz ali priznanje? Naj je ?loveški jezik še tako natan?en s svojimi tiso?i besed, je vedno ?udovito nejasen.

We do not see things the way they are, we see them as we are.

Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.

The way it interprets Scripture is based upon Christ's and the NT writers' understanding of the Old Testament (OT) Scriptures in explaining the outworking of God's will on earth (Matt. 6:10).

NCT is based upon a redemptive history approach to understanding the fulfillment of God's eternal kingdom purpose on earth. Its principles of interpretation are based upon a biblical theology that stresses the theology of the Bible itself, especially upon the NT understanding of the OT.

Teachers don't reckon time the way normal people do.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Hebrews 12:10). This is why it is important to understand God's grace if we want to profit from admonition. God never rejects his children, and he always disciplines us in love. The better we understand this and the more we believe it, the easier it will be to interpret admonition as an act of love and profit from it instead of interpreting it as proof of rejection and reacting against it.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that." —Erich Heller

the story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people.

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books. The book needs you.

When you are describing things and places the reader has seen, keep description short by reminding him of the pictures he has on file. When you are describing things and places the reader has not seen, keep description short by using pieces of the pictures he has on file to create new pictures.

To write is not necessary to communicate. Communication occur in the mind of the reader.

knowing the world is an illusion is not enough. The Gnostics and some early Christians called the world a dream; the Hindus call it maya and the Buddhists call it anicca, all meaning pretty much the same thing. But if you don't know the purpose of the dream and how to reinterpret the images you are seeing, which is something we'll get into later, then the general teaching that the world is an illusion is of very limited value.

whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

When you read the words on the page you give it life - yours...

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?