Interpretation Quotes · Page 12

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

— Nora Ephron

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation.

— Marshall Sylver

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

— Juliet Marillier

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

— Eleanora Duse

If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story…

— Brian Lindstrom

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between…

— Yann Martel

We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the…

— Mike Flanagan

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at…

— Andy Warhol

It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great…

— Joe Calzaghe

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is…

— Epictetus

The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets…

— Jim Lee

I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world,…

— John Larroquette

Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly…

— Douglas Murray

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position…

— Umberto Eco

The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he…

— Albert Pike

I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a…

— Wardell Milan

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms…

— Colson Whitehead

Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding…

— Paul David Tripp

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to…

— Suzy Kassem

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

— Freeman Tilden

“Our emotions don't necessarily tell us the facts about the situation, rather they tell us our interpretation of the facts.”

— Carolyn Mahaney

I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

— Victoria Legrand

“A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth, depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations.”

— Toba Beta

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or…

— M. Ward

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

— Ansel Adams

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

— Jacqueline Woodson

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

— Emily Maitlis

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

— Hermann Hesse

“Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

When I perform I try and focus on the lyrics and my interpretation of the lyrics.

— Stephen Schwartz

Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

— Xaviera Hollander