1.
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia
'What is a balanced interpretation of the text? Neither completely literal nor overly biased?'
2.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts.
Alfred Adler
It is plain that we are not swayed by "information" but rather our understanding of the information.
3.
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
Ian Curtis
4.
Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.
Fred Astaire
5.
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
Joshua Bell
6.
We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.
Michael Kenna
8.
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
Freeman Tilden
9.
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
Reza Aslan
10.
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost
11.
My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
Rachel Held Evans
13.
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
Saint Augustine
14.
But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.
Martin Schulz
15.
Art is life's dream interpretation.
Otto Rank
16.
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
Sheena Iyengar
18.
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
Greg L. Bahnsen
19.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Johan Huizinga
20.
I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.
Sammy Gravano
21.
I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.
Janelle Monae
23.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
David Gilmour
24.
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
Harry Stack Sullivan
25.
The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.
Roland Barthes
26.
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds
27.
I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
Andre Kertesz
28.
What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.
Tony Robbins
29.
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
Suzy Kassem
30.
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
Carl Gustav Hempel
31.
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
Edward Said
32.
The world is a
progressively realized community of interpretation.
Josiah Royce
33.
How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.
Tony Robbins
34.
I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.
Jonathan Brandis
36.
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed,
they were tortured interpretations of a document
[the Constitution] intended to prevent them.
Rexford Tugwell
37.
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
Vasily Smyslov
38.
I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey
39.
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
John Felstiner
40.
Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations
Rad Hourani
41.
Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.
Leon V. DePoncins
42.
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
Uta Hagen
43.
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.
Ludwig von Mises
44.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
45.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston
46.
The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
48.
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
49.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
Paracelsus
50.
The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.
Deepak Chopra