Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read… — Charlotte Bronte
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal… — Charles Frazier
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel… — Barry Lopez
A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. — Rebecca Solnit
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded… — Sam Harris
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data… — Robert Anton Wilson
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward Said
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63) — Sheldon B. Kopp
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not… — Stephen King
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and… — David Foster Wallace
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,… — Vincent Price
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.… — Chuck Klosterman
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco

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