Interpretation Quotes · Page 9

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

— Xaviera Hollander

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

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Ansel Adams

“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

“The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the…

— Gerald O. West

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though…

— Mark Doty

OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up…

— Anonymous

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can…

— KT Tunstall

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an…

— Barry Manilow

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of…

— Earl Browder

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what…

— Walter E. Williams

Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy…

— John Maynard Keynes

As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I…

— Don McLean

“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the…

— Andrew Louth

I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So…

— Elie Wiesel

I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of…

— Sean Penn

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as…

— Hubert Reeves

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing…

— Takeshi Kitano

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

— Victoria Legrand

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

— Antonin Scalia

“When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been…

— Saim .A. Cheeda

“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.”

— Tom Boellstorff

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

— Edward Said

“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?”

— Eli Of Kittim

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

— Rem Koolhaas

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

— John Buchanan Robinson

“We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.

— Zendaya

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

— Brenda Shoshanna

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up…

— David Mermin

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all…

— Paul Ricoeur

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be…

— John D'Agata

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might…

— Ry Cooder