Quotes About Interpretation

Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf man observing people listening to music. You say 'What are they regarding? Nothing is there.' But something is.

There is a loquacity that tells nothing, which was Bathsheba's; and there is a silence which says much: that was Gabriel's.

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill in speech, and her father had none.

the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

La bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno molto sentito, non risiedeva nelle cose ma in ciò che esse simboleggiavano

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. My

Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on colour, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

Es difícil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos.

His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative;

Mi sia concesso ripetere che un romanzo è un'impressione, non un'argomentazione.

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

These are probably dogs

Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.

Seltsam ist es. Beherrscht dich ein Gedanke, so findest du ihn überall ausgedrückt, du r i e c h s t ihn sogar im Winde.

car ce que l'on savait et que l'on a pensé tout en peignant joue un rôle. Cela vous guide la main et cela produit son effet, ca y est et ça n'y est pas ; et c'est là ce qui rend le tout éloquent.

that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.

Has he really insulted me? But an insult must be of intent, otherwise it can be none.

La dicha del escritor es su posibilidad de transformar la idea enteramente en sentimiento; el sentimiento, totalmente en idea.

That music is ambiguity as a system. Take this note or this one. You can understand it like this or, again, like this, can perceive it as augmented from below or as diminished from above, and, being the sly fellow you are, you can make use of its duplicity just as you like.