Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great… — Itay Talgam
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. — Marcus Aurelius
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put… — August Wilson
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must… — Alfred North Whitehead
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of… — Jimmy Carter
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is… — George Pendle
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and… — Steve Coogan
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. — Jean Genet
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. — Andre Gide
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words… — Harry Connick, Jr.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation. — Benedict Cumberbatch
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. — George Eliot
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be… — Lupe Fiasco
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts… — Ian Hacking
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual… — Diana Wynne Jones

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