Quotes About Interpretation

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to know me, that is something you have to be okay with.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad.

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.