Quotes About Interpretation

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

Don't give explanation to anyone because who believes you, no need and who do not will not agree.

A different direction defines what to me is real and to you is hooey.

I remember thinking that this transformation, which I witnessed thousands of times, was an eloquent statement of the style's ability to evoke and express beauty.

Arta lecturii, aÅŸadar, e în bun? parte arta recititului.

A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence.

Poetry remakes and prolongs language; every poetic language begins by being a secret language, that is, the creation of a personal universe, of a completely closed world. The purest poetic act seems to re-create language from an inner experience that … reveals the essence of things.

Hesse's Journey to the East (1951) in the fifties anticipated the occult revival of the late sixties. But who will interpret for us the amazing success of Rosemary's Baby and 2001? I am merely asking the question.

The fact is that in most cases an author does not understand all the meaning of his work. Archaic symbolisms re-appear spontaneously...

Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time] The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God. - Deutronomy 22:5

We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

Što bi ?ovjek gluhima tuma?io glazbu?

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Každý život má dvÄ› verze; tu, co ?lovÄ›k žije, a tu, co vyprávÄ›jí ostatní.

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i.