Interpretation Quotes · Page 11

It's not enough to have a beautiful voice. It's the depth of interpretation that is different.

— Mirella Freni

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.”

— C.S. Lewis

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

— Marshall McLuhan

There's no right or wrong answer in an interpretation. It's all in the person who's interpreting, and how you feel about something.

— Riff Raff

I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.

— Markwayne Mullin

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation…

— Charles Frazier

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the…

— Edward Weston

We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency…

— Marianne Williamson

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,…

— John Piper

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked…

— Carter G. Woodson

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to…

— Cass McCombs

Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to…

— Chuck Missler

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…

— Edwidge Danticat

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and…

— Jean Renoir

That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the…

— Hannah Arendt

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,…

— Peter Kropotkin

“When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what…

— Heidi Julavits

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge…

— Seneca the Younger

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

— Linda Perry

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust…

— Jovan Adepo

What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires”

— Richard Wright

Some people cannot believe there is an alternative interpretation of the Bible aside from their own.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up…

— Allan Holdsworth

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

— Fred Hoyle

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

— Zachary Quinto

Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.

— Stephen Henderson

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

— Giles Foden