Quotes About Interpretation

Was that a smile? (Nora) Was what a smile? (Ewan) That strange curvature of your lips. You know, the one where the corners are actually going up instead of down. (Nora)

They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei) I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

By the way, by using the very same letters, "listen" spells "silent.

A player whose technical skill is not of the first rank will make gracenotes longer than they should be. As a result he has to shorten the theme notes (unless he is to drag the variation badly.) Short theme notes means less emphasis on the melody.

Oh dear. I don't think I'm explaining this very well. I wish I could remember what Mother said when she told me—it made sense then." Light dawned. "You mean—the visitor? The little man who sweeps you out?" "What?" Shyly Norah told Flo what Aunt Florence had said. "No wonder you didn't understand! What a stupid way to tell you.

If an observer can only make sense of the "reality" through different idiosyncratic lenses, this forces us to rethink our notion of objectivity.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

Let me get this straight. The man with the gun says stay in your seat and you take that to mean jump around the room like demented grasshoppers.

Si puedes ver las cosas con tus propios ojos, no hay necesidad de que pongas la oreja para averiguar lo que dicen los demás

What you remember... is not what they think you will remember, it is often not

Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.

Expression, voice, and even gestures can tell one much that is not revealed in words.

You sound like—" "A writer?" "I was going to say lunatic, but writer's fairly close." "As

James: And I take back what I said about you being totalitarian. Lucy: It's about time. That term doesn't really suit me. James: I know. You like flirting too much. Lucy: Totalitarians aren't flirts? James: Historically speaking, no.

Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

We analyse dreams to help us with problems because, as Jung says, "the problem is much greater than I, and it is wise to hold fast to the words the dream gives, because one cannot expect to be wiser than nature".

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.

Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we cannot constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader.

I look for omens everywhere, because they are everywhere to be found.