Quotes About Interpretation

But a book? You go into it. There's no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voice, the colors, the movement as you physically turn the pages.

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

A vid comes to you, even at you. It's visual, it's auditory, and can, of course, pull you in. Its purpose is to do just that, draw you into the world you see and hear. But a book? You go into it. There's no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voice, the colors, the movement as you physically turn the pages.

Roarke made some notations on the fax—a

Red's just dark pink when you think about it." When

I've already explained

I know I say people suck, but I didn't mean it literally.

He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.

You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and pondering it— perhaps even having a conversation in your mind with the author. It means learning about the world— the world as it really is, not as you wish it to be.

we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West's but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben können, die sehr von der im Lexikon angegebenen abweicht, wo der metaphorische Funke der Dechiffrierfunktion immer einen Sprung voraus ist, wo eine andere, unerwartete Interpretation stets möglich ist.

Let me point out that a duck's idea of being saved may be different from your idea of being saved. It may include being left in peace by human beings.

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?

Jokes have a relation to the unconscious.' 'Jokes may indeed have a relation to the unconscious. But also: sometimes a joke is just a joke.' 'Directed against-' 'Directed against you. Whom else? The man who doesn't laugh. The man who can't take a joke.

Bilas Šou tiki, kad jiedu su Deividu Luriu kadaise kartu išg?r? arbatos, tod?l Deividas Luris yra jo draugas, ir jiedu yra ?sipareigoj? vienas kitam. Ar Bilas Šou teisus, ar klysta?

Kako ?e on pisati ako ne ume da govori? Slova su ogledalo re?i. I kad naizgled pišemo u tišini, naš zapis je slika i prilika govora koji te?e u nama, bilo da je drugima ili nama samima upu?en.

she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

Para ellos, en cambio, soy especial. No tengo conciencia, o bien tengo demasiada, no consiguen decidirse.

You cannot understand a man's actions unless you understand his beliefs.

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.

I like it because its ugly