Quotes About Interpretation

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

For in art there is no such thing as a universal truth.

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

To some if you owned your own mind you were indeed sickout when you possessed and Antagonist mind you were healthy. A mind which sought to interpret the world by using a single loa. Somewhat like filling a milk bottle with an ocean.

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry us while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

vrline jednog ?ovjeka mi primamo i cijenimo potpuno samo ako nam se ukazuju u obliku koji odgovara našim shva?anjima i sklonostima.

Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne umije da ?ita, nego onaj koji misli da je sve ono što pro?ita istina.

It is so subtle to write things that have no meaning

Whether the apple is deemed a good sign or bad sign depends on what that person believes

A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith.

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel. Hmm. He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

Love meant different things to different people.