Quotes About Interpretation

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.

It may look like a boat with a hole, but it may be a hole with a boat.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

The body never lies.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.