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Quotes About Interpretation

I never thought that, in the sense of believing it. It is merely an alternative to be considered.
~ Isaac Asimov
Las palabras son un sustituto bastante confuso de las ecuaciones matemáticas.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
~ Isaac Asimov
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.
~ Isaac Asimov
literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
that little bit between each note — silences which give the form
~ Isaac Stern
Nadie sabe para quién escribe. Cada libro es un mensaje lanzado en una botella al mar con la esperanza de que arribe a otra orilla.
~ Isabel Allende
If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.
~ Isabel Allende
If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again
~ Isabel Allende
He armado la idea de mi país como un rompecabezas, seleccionando aquellas piezas que se ajustan a mi diseño e ignorando las demás.
~ Isabel Allende
In the Chinese language, do you know what the characters for 'crisis' are? 'Danger' plus 'opportunity.
~ Isabel Allende
Destinul unei carti incepe atunci cand ea este citita nu cand este scrisa! -
~ Isabel Allende
She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is
~ Isabel Allende
She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?
~ Isabel Allende
Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.
~ Isabel Allende
Casi todas las vidas se parecen y pueden contarse en el tono con que se lee la guía de teléfonos, a menos que uno decida ponerle énfasis y color.
~ Isabel Allende
According to Rebecca Solnit in her book Men Explain Things to Me
~ Isabel Allende
Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.
~ Barry Zito
American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.
~ Seung Sahn
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.
~ Eduardo Galeano
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
~ Kyp Malone
I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
~ Kyp Malone
Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.
~ Mark Salling
If you listen to five nights of Led Zeppelin back to back they are all different.
~ Jason Bonham