It's not enough to have a beautiful voice. It's the depth of interpretation that is different. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because… — Richard Taverner Copy Share Image
Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter. — William Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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