Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past. — Zendaya Copy Share Image
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
“We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me. — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
People are intended to resist symbolic interpretation, as well. At times, they break through - there are little hints of 'this song… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
“What, exactly, she had been protesting was subject to interpretation. To the poorest, her self-immolation was a response to enervating poverty. To… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
“impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible’s message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image