Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 433 authors

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeâ€”even a positivist oneâ€”remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I have decided to leave Cleaâ€™s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms… — Lawrence Durrell
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation,… — Christopher Nolan
Shyâ€ was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. â€œSnottyâ€ was the interpretation she got from people her own age. — Ann Brashares
It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward… — Simon Pegg
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In… — Dean Koontz
How do you feel?â€ she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. â€œOther than terrible, I mean.â€ He moved his head slightly to the side. It… — Julia Quinn
OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 â€“ 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn… — Isaac Newton
Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because… — Anton Szandor LaVey
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. — Juliet Marillier
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just… — Alison Bechdel
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. — Michel de Montaigne
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. — James Joyce
That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know… — Julian Barnes
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something… — Grant Morrison
Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
Itâ€™s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. Thereâ€™s presentation and thereâ€™s interpretation and theyâ€™re so dependent on each other it… — Garth Stein

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