Top 84 Interprets Quotes
#1. Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
#3. It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
Fred Astaire
#4. Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?
Kilroy J. Oldster
#5. I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it ... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#6. The heart is a peculiar thing. It sees and interprets details long before the brain has started to think there might be something worth noticing. The brain resents this skill, however, and will often spitefully do all it can to repress what the heart might be whispering.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#7. I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
#8. I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.
Colleen Atwood
#9. The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
R.C. Sproul
#10. Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
James Marsden
#11. Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.
John Trudell
#12. In this sense, the methodological form that comes into play here is ultimately quite simple: Scripture is interpreted by Scripture. Scripture interprets itself. Attentive listening to Scripture's own internal self-interpretation is very characteristic of Redemptoris Mater.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#13. The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity ...
Frank Lloyd Wright
#15. I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.
Azzedine Alaia
#16. The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
David Novak
#17. Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.
J.R. Rim
#18. A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.
Lucille Kallen
#19. History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
P.D. James
#20. Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
Stephen Richards
#21. The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
John Shelby Spong
#22. What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?
Geoffrey W Bromiley
#23. There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
#24. Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
Ravi Zacharias
#25. The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter L. Berger
#26. It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
Cesare Pavese
#27. Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. Raymond
#28. The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
Joel Coen
#29. Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
Richard Wright
#30. Success awaits the diligent faithful
who diligently grasp each prospect
of God given opportunity, wisely
interprets the mystery of its potential,
and moves in faith to obtain.
Calvin W. Allison
#31. A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.
Edgar Cantero
#32. Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.
Marty Rubin
#33. God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
Beth Moore
#34. for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.
Sharon Kay Penman
#35. From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.
Stanley Coren
#36. We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve.
Dorothee Solle
#37. An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
#38. Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Albert Einstein
#39. Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
Aleister Crowley
#40. Art begins ... when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.
Chaim Potok
#41. No man is hurt but by himself ... Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
Diogenes
#42. I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
Garth Stein
#44. The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.
Basil W. Maturin
#45. In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
#46. History is never the simple recounting of the past as it really was. It is inevitably an interpretation of the past, a retrospective vision of the past, which is limited both by the sources themselves and by the historian who selects and interprets them.
Timothy George
#47. There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.
Jim Lee
#48. What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?
Mitchell Heisman
#49. Natural disasters are revelatory. The manner in which a society interprets a catastrophe and responds to the chaos exposes many of the accepted truths, prejudices, hopes, and fears of a culture. - Nicholas Shrady, The Last Day
Steve Olson
#50. Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.
Lionel Suggs
#51. To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
James Parton
#52. There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.
Virginia Postrel
#53. The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.
Tommy Hilfiger
#54. The mind interprets the real world and this is as real as real can be but you have to ask yourself, how often you have met a talking orchid?
Steve Merrick
#55. Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.
Stefano Gabbana
#57. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.
James MacDonald
#58. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable - slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.
Frank Herbert
#59. A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
Sam Ervin
#60. The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
John Gilmore
#61. Her mind interprets the world differently. She feels and sees things with a unique perspective. This is what makes her so magnificent.
Tina J. Richardson
#62. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#63. Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see, what to recognize as significant.
Alan Trachtenberg
#64. Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
#65. I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I've had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes - mountains and water and flowers and birds.
Renee O'Connor
#66. Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.
Dmitry Medvedev
#67. The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.
Deepak Chopra
#68. I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
Andrew Johnson
#69. The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
Seth Shostak
#70. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
W. H. Auden
#71. FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.
Fulton J. Sheen
#72. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
Dorothee Solle
#73. Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#75. Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.
Mark Durie
#76. Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office!
Sarah Lafleur
#77. A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.
Stephen Hawking
#78. The only difference between someone who folds in the face of adversity and someone who doesn't, is if the person interprets the challenges they face as either threats, or opportunities. Help
The Mindset Warrior
#79. Perception is the way one's eyes see the surrounds and one's mind interprets it.
Pearl Zhu
#80. The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.
John Von Neumann
#81. Nature is the shape in which the man of higher Cultures synthesizes and interprets the immediate impressions of his senses. History is that from which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.
Oswald Spengler
#83. Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.
Robert Reynolds
#84. A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes.
Debasish Mridha
