Quotes About Interpretation

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

Narratives are very important to me.

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.

If you try to describe NASCAR to anyone, you sound crazy.

It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

High? Low. Just like the old days. If you say so.

Comme la théologie chrétienne, la tradition rabbinique distingue 4 niveaux de lecture de la loi : - le sens littéral ; - le sens allusif (métaphorique) ; - le sens profond (moral, religieux) ; - le sens secret (ésotérique, mystique)

Biblicism, I have said, is impossible. But there are other approaches—including outright liberalism—that I think are even worse.

seeing Christ as central compels us to always try to make sense of everything we read in any part of scripture in light of our larger knowledge of who God is in Jesus Christ.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Poetry in motion, she murmured under her breath. She'd heard that expression, but now she knew what it meant, how the words could come alive with a man moving.

The team leader, Dr. Joe Spagnola, gave him a quick look as well. It pretty much said, You maggot, if you leave one of my men behind, don't ever go to sleep because I'll be coming for you. At least Barry interpreted the look that way.

Her wild imagination immediately interpreted his statement as him claiming her, making her his, letting her know no matter what, he would stand for her.

That is not what you told me," Bellisia said, waving her hand in the air for Delmar to refresh their drinks. "I believe you said I should give Ezekiel my entire adoration." She sounded indignant. Nonny's eyebrow went up. "I said that?" "Ezekiel said you said that." All of them burst out laughing.

She had more practice than any other rider that she knew of in hiding how she felt, yet Ricco read her.

Many conservative Protestant interpreters, though uncomfortable to find themselves slumbering with Enlightenment and postmodernist bedfellows, will fail to discern or acknowledge the necessity of studying the fathers. The deep-seated Protestant suspicion of tradition and its confidence in the ability of renewed reason alone to understand Scripture will lead many to shy away from investing time and energy in exploring patristic thought

Historian and psychoanalyst are experienced in the discovery of things done in the past. They know how to find hidden details, but once they are brought into the light of day, these details, although of course subject to interpretation, are too polysemous to stay in any one subjectivity's perspective. The discoveries – when true ones – displace the finder.

There is an ethics of perception. Theories are not simply forms of perception. When practised they become ethical decisions.

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.