Quotes about Interpretation

I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.  This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.

So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.

Have you ever had to communicate someone else's vision? It's very difficult to do, isn't it?

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals—and is intended to conceal—the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the "peculiar institution.

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.