Interpretive Quotes

#1. When science starts to be interpretive
it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. We all see the same thing, but interpretive it differently.

Sukant Ratnakar

#3. Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

Laurence Olivier

#4. We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.

James K.A. Smith

#5. Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Michael Beck

#6. I don't know how to explain it."
"Try words. If that doesn't work, we'll move on to interpretive dance.

Devon Monk

#7. Quigley (to Duane): My business is not your business, whether you ask after it in Tainish or interpretive dance.

Ashley Cope

#8. Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Tom Boellstorff

#9. A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.

Oliver Harris

#10. Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli.

Harvey Mansfield

#11. And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Katey Sagal

#12. It is a sound interpretive rule ... that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

Robert Higgs

#13. Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

Umberto Eco

#14. If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.

Michael Robotham

#15. Heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.

Itzhak Perlman

#16. As part of our interpretive task, then, we must distinguish between kingdom values and cultural values within the biblical text. With every change in our culture we have to reevaluate our interpretation of Scripture to determine what our perspective should be. At

William J. Webb

#17. PEOPLE WILL STOP ASKING QUESTIONS IF YOU ANSWER BACK IN INTERPRETIVE DANCE. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#18. Would it help if I performed an interpretive dance while I said the words?

Chris Cannon

#19. I want to woo you with food now that I've wooed you with words, song, and the magic of my interpretive dance.

Stacey Jay

#20. It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.

Melanie Klein

#21. Truth.
In a court of law it is little more than an interpretive tool, in reality, there are no absolutes in life, and any truth will change over time, at the end of the day, if it hurts its bad if it doesn't hurt its good, and truth sort of lurks in between those two extremes.

Steve Merrick

#22. I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That's not always true in life.

Emery Lord

#23. Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Clint Eastwood

#24. There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

Gus Van Sant

#25. The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

#26. I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.

Clint Eastwood

#27. As Gazzaniga put it, these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes.

David Eagleman

#28. I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Nicholas G. Carr

#29. It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Zadie Smith

#30. We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Umberto Eco

#31. Thus when an interpretation of the world, an ideology, for example, claims to explain everything, one thing remains inexplicable, namely, the interpretive system itself. And with that, every claim to completeness and finality fails.

Paul Watzlawick

#32. Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Mick Jagger

#33. The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.

Damon Lindelof

#34. Here's a helpful hint: If you nod, I can't see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak.

Emma Scott

#35. Directive design gives an either/or choice, similar to a traffic sign. Interpretive design allows for personal choice, in the same way symbolism allows for individual meaning.

Maggie Macnab

#36. Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Eugene H. Peterson

#37. Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Mike Judge

#38. Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

Elliott Erwitt

#39. When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Jimmy Webb

#40. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens.

Matt Chandler

#41. When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

James Levine

#42. Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.

T.C. Boyle

#43. You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.

Clive Davis

#44. Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed.

Jim Butcher

#45. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

Clifford Geertz

#46. I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

Kiersten White

#47. The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.

August Wilson

#48. They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus's unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard.

Haruki Murakami

#49. There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless. All you can do is hint at things. Words, too, can't do more than just evoke things. That's where dance comes in again.

Pina Bausch