Quotes About Interpretation

Remember how social change happens. Each of us has a worldview that pretty much interprets the world for us, puts our personal and public experiences in some kind of rational and understandable order. That worldview works fairly well for a period of time. Then something happens that renders it insufficient. Something happens that can't be fit into life as we have known and interpreted it.

Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Remember that things are symbols, and that the thing symbolized is more important than the symbol itself.

The word, Irene, is stealing." "Oh, semantics. 'I acquire, 'you borrow,' 'she steals,' 'they invade and loot . . .

Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth.

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

I'm not so good at interpreting poetry. When I read a poem, I respond to it in one of two ways: "Wow, this is great!" or "God, this is awful!" I have no other responses.

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

You see what you want to see

First, I was like, "I know it! It's dun-dun-DA-dun, dun, DA-DUN, dun DA-DUN." WYATT The rest of us were like, "Reese, dude: that's the Darth Vader song." But that got the Darth Vader song stuck in everybody's head. So whenever somebody tried to sing Beethoven's Fifth, it came out sounding like Darth Vader.

but you had better realize you are adding apples and oranges (that is, doctor sales + engineer sales) to get your final totals, and in so doing, you are leaving yourself open to misinterpreting the data badly. Most important, market, when it is defined in this sense, ceases to be a single, isolable object of action—it no longer refers to any single entity that can be acted on—and cannot, therefore, be the focus of marketing.

What the company staff interpreted as a ramp in sales leading smoothly "up the curve" was in fact an initial blip—what we will be calling the early market—and not the first indications of an emerging mainstream market.

Design is an unknown.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

But the Troian gestes, as they felle,In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite,Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite;Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Even now, I tell myself, there is a language / to which I might speak and which / would rightly hear me...

Sometimes english masters make you read poems chiz chiz chiz. You have to sa the weedy words and speke them beatifully as if you knew what they meant. Fotherington-tomas thinks this is absolutely super and when he sa he wander lonely as a cloud you think he will flote out of the window.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.