Quotes about Interpretation
A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.
— Gloria Steinem
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
— Henri Matisse
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
— John Maxwell
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.
— Bo Burnham
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
— Teresa of Avila
Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.
— John Kani
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
— Calvin Coolidge
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
— Carl Jung
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
— Martin Luther
I have read many Catholic apologists who have tried to explain this away. Many of them are quite technical, whereas the pontiff's words seem simple and clear. I think any fair-minded reader of these words will come away with the idea that this pope believes the "blood of Christ" has redeemed atheists, whether they like it or not.
— Terry James
You say we worship the sun; so do you.
— Tertullian