Quotes of: Interpretations Keyword

A dream which has not been interpreted is like a letter unread.

Hebrew

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

The Benefactor

Our individual reality is borne out of our interpretations. Interpretations come from our experiences.

L.R.W. Lee

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

Maria Bamford

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The Interpretation of Murder

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

The Interpretation of Murder

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

The Interpretation of Murder

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

The Interpretation of Murder

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

The Interpretation of Murder

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Jane Eyre

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things.

Mike Nichols

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Muhammad Yunus

In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

Andy Serkis

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Jasper Johns