Quotes About Interpretation

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

It is only the things we don't understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it.

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

There are so many indications that one does not know what one sees. Is it the trees or is it the woods?

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.

Paul Eckman says, "The face tells us subtleties in feelings that only a poet can put into words.

The face tells us subtleties in feelings that only a poet can put into words.

Context is the necessary link that gives meaning to everything we observe.

When you try to manage or reason with such a person, you find that he is not reacting to what you say but rather to what he expects you to say; he is reacting to his script.

Often, knowing the language of a given prediction is more important than understanding exactly what a person says.

For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in Miller's book than in Rimbaud's actual writing: he responded to Rimbaud not as a poet, but as a symbol.

n 1997, Van Sant was doing a reading at a bookstore from his no Pink. Dedicated to River, the book starred a thinly disguised version of him.) An audience member asked him who had hoisted River Phoenix body into the car. "I was hoping that viewers would project themselves into the film and decide for themselves who it was," he told her. "Okay, then," she replied. "Who picked him up in your version?" Van Sant paused. "In my version . .. in my version, I pick him up.

In 1997, Van Sant was doing a reading at a bookstore from his no Pink. Dedicated to River, the book starred a thinly disguised version him.) An audience member asked him who had hoisted River Phoen body into the car. "I was hoping that viewers would project themselves into the film and decide for themselves who it was," he told her. "Okay, then," she replied. "Who picked him up in your version?" Van Sant paused. "In my version . .. in my version, I pick him up.

Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.

You talked to me, but you didn't. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

I'm not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.

You're an unreliable narrator, you know that?' 'Is that like the guy who narrates the telenovela on Jane the Virgin?' 'It's when the person telling you the story is maybe not telling you the entire truth. Sometimes it's because they can't see it themselves. But other times it's because they are trying to deceive you.

Are all movies books first?" "Just the best ones.

Allyson sees Willem's face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.

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