Interpretation Quotes · Page 11

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

— George Eliot

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

— Martin Schulz

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

— Stella Maxwell

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

— Jean Genet

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject. It's not an interpretation…

— George Deukmejian

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

— Harry Stack Sullivan

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as…

— Gertrude Atherton

Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only…

— Shitou Xiqian

...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what…

— David Foster Wallace

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to…

— Richard G. Scott

A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker…

— Wesley Morris

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

“thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and…

— Emily Giffin

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create…

— August Wilson

Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it…

— Edward Norton

Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied…

— Childe Hassam

In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection.…

— Cat Rambo

“There was an abyss between myself and my love. I could not interpret the voiding distance. I supposed later that my attempts…

— Anonymous

Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive…

— Michael LeBoeuf

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…

— George Eliot

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences…

— Sam Harris

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

— Brad Paisley

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

— Slavoj Žižek

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

— Donald Johanson

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

— Mark Helprin

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to…

— Julian Darius

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.

— Andrew Alden

No matter your interpretation of Apple's success with its Watch, it has become a leader - and it wasn't first to market.

— Adam Lashinsky

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,

— Janelle Monae

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

— Suzy Kassem

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

— Edwin Meese

Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F]…

— Rob Lowe

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

— Olof Arnalds