Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

I study history in order to give an interpretation. — Oliver Stone
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. — M. Ward
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is… — Dennis Quaid
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. — Joshua Bell
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in… — John Dykstra
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what… — Marya Hornbacher
I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the… — Harry Connick, Jr.
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation. — Takeshi Kitano
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. — Bruno Latour
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military… — Antonin Scalia
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ€™s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but… — Brian D. McLaren
The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases,… — Kenwa Mabuni
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate! — David Mermin
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are,… — Hans Haacke
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee… — William J. Brennan
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. — Paul Valery
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section.… — D. V. Ager
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than… — Bill Moyers

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