I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
“I urge not that we assume that love will provide a reliable foundation for knowledge but that we nonetheless keep the requirements… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs -… — David Nail Copy Share Image
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
“At the end of all the filtering, we take the distorted perception of reality and add it to our worldviews. Since the… — Petros Scientia Copy Share Image
“You know, fingers, they each have different meanings, but my interpretation of them are: promise, love, provocation, direction, and the thumb...well...GOOD LUCK!” — Tohru Tagura Copy Share Image
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement,… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation.… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
