When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People are intended to resist symbolic interpretation, as well. At times, they break through - there are little hints of 'this song… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“What, exactly, she had been protesting was subject to interpretation. To the poorest, her self-immolation was a response to enervating poverty. To… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Polling itself, and polling analysis, have a margin of error - and a margin of interpretation; anyone who is too certain should… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel… — Hilla von Rebay Copy Share Image
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that,… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
