Interpretation Quotes · Page 10

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

— Andrej Pejic

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.”

— Deborah Curtis

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.”

— Pamela Cummins

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

— Rumi

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

— Ronald Fisher

I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to…

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for…

— Umberto Eco

Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by…

— William J. Brennan

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…

— John Dewey

For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art…

— Daniel Boulud

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he…

— Byron Katie

The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems…

— Wilfrid Sellars

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in…

— Gene Barry

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we…

— Michel de Montaigne

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If…

— Marjorie Garber

Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would…

— Joseph Stalin

The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it…

— Daniel Libeskind

If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one…

— Scott Adams

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if…

— Elliot Perlman

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation…

— Karl Jaspers

“In the law receiver’s perspective (the corporate, employer, employees, citizens, legal fraternity, and the society at large) paramount quandary is of “right…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you…

— John O'Callaghan

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

— John D'Agata

Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam…

— Mark Durie

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

— Leon V. DePoncins

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

— Sigmund Freud

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a…

— Helene Grimaud

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

— Kenneth Burke

“Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.”

— Lauren Willig

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

— Piyush Goyal

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.”

— Umberto Eco

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

— Elliot W. Eisner