Quotes About Interpretation

You should be careful when using these endless words. An acquaintance of mine once was fortunate enough to discover the most impressive word notalgia for back-ache. Mistakenly, however, he declared in a large company: 'I have such a nostalgia.' 'Oh, you want to go home to Nizhne-Novgorod?' asked his most sympathetic hostess. 'Not at all,' he answered. 'I just cannot sit down.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

PossibleTo useWords provided one treat themAs enemies.

Art is not a democracy.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

A mad man sees what he sees.

In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight." - Jaime

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?" Stannis snorted. "Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

May," said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.

Son sus silencios lo que debéis temer, no sus palabras.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

Tell me who's won and I'll tell you what it means.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story.

Miramos las mismas estrellas y vemos cosas tan distintas. Jon Nieve

Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the language, he had ways of making himself understood.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

A picture you hold long enough in your head becomes your reality..

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)