Quotes for All
There’s the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship – I don’t just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature – then … Read more
… the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter and the world, a new attitude of humankind toward nature, and a new understanding of how we acquire and make use of our material goods. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of … Read more
Science fiction that’s just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I … Read more
It’s hard to believe the life that ‘Someone Like You’ has taken on. It’s proof that people hunger for great songs – and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love. David Nail
Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations. David Eagleman
The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work … Read more
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks – and especially admit of different interpretations. Andre Gide
The good thing is in my case I’m all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it’s time to move on. As a pop song it’s definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a … Read more
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it’s so open to interpretation. And I’m very happy having different interpretations of it. Alec Soth
Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences. Alan Green