Interpretation Quotes

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

— Nina Garcia

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

— Hans Sachs

I do not question the word of God, but its interpretation by men.

— Terry Mark

I'm fine with a title that's open to interpretation.

— Sean Baker

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

— Shirin Ebadi

“observation comes first, then interpretation.”

— Eben Alexander III

Art is life's dream interpretation.

— Otto Rank

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

— Elie Wiesel

“You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.”

— Dennis Prager

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

— Larry Wall

Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.

— Demetra George

There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of…

— Asra Nomani

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

— Starhawk

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations,…

— Grant Morrison

“When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and…

— Brian Harvey

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information.…

— Henning Mankell

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations)…

— Bill Crawford

As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is…

— Idina Menzel

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest…

— Sherry Turkle

Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to…

— Andreas Gursky

Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but…

— Fareed Zakaria

Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the…

— Rajneesh

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most…

— John C. McGinley

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have…

— Jill Lepore

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…

— Fritjof Capra

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its…

— Gary Burton

“To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's…

— William A. Dembski

“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of…

— Joseph Lewis

Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.…

— Randall Balmer

“To insist that we all view Scripture alike, or that a particular interpretation of a particular passage be enforced somehow, can easily…

— Alden Thompson

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us…

— Walter Brueggemann

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood

“When deciding whether we prefer French or Italian films, for example, we must first determine exactly what the terms French and Italian…

— Thomas Gilovich

“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine…

— Thomas Henry Huxley