Quotes About Interpretation

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.

I stared at her, trying to decide if her smile could be called ghastly (I thought it could), or if she really was amused by her story.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;

The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that character of being common, yet individual, that belongs to aesthetic experiences. Some are sensitive to the sight, and the rest are not; to some of them it seems to convey something -- to others it is just a thing, a toadstool or what you will.

She was looking at the cab, looking right through me, and I knew that she was curious because she'd seen A.J. talking to me. Which, to her, looked an awful lot like A.J. was talking to himself. "Say, I gotta run, mom, I'll call you later, " I instructed the kid, and then pretend to hang up your phone.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

Tienes tanto encanto como una babosa muerta.

When I make a pretty good hook (...) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.

Peeta doesn't need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.

Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

Did you hear that?" the duke asked with a wide grin, turning to Dare. "She said 'papa.'" The viscount returned the candy dish and tea tray to the relocated end table. "I distinctly heard 'baboon.'" "Hm, well, you're distinctly deaf.

I'm glad you decided to come." "It doesn't mean anything." He grinned. "Everything means something.

Ceea ce oamenii de pe P?mânt numesc "Rai" ?i "Iad" sunt, de fapt, modurile în care ei abordeaz? situa?iile oriunde s-ar afla, cât ?i ceea ce manifest? fiecare individ ca circumstan?e ale vie?ii sale.

The mind wants to understand things—it's a miracle. We make logic jumps every day—images we see are interpreted. We make natural assumptions to form an understanding

A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.

I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life.

Too many Europeans interpreted military superiority as intellectual and even biological superiority.

The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

I dunno, I don't speak caveman