Quotes About Different Interpretations

#1. Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events.

Michael Makai

#2. There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

Shirin Ebadi

#3. I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

Joshua Bell

#4. An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

William Jones

#5. The Bible is not a set of instructions that can give us simple answers," wrote Webber, "nor a text with which to prove points ... . The guidance the Bible gives was provided for a society very different from ours ... and any set of words is open to different interpretations.

Sara Miles

#6. One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Tracy Letts

#7. Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

David Eagleman

#8. There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

Adora Svitak

#9. To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Andre Gide

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Tobsha Learner

#13. I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.

Ishmael Reed

#14. People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.

Miru Kim

#15. I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Hideo Kojima

#16. The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Roman Jakobson

#17. It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

Marya Hornbacher

#18. We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.

Jason Hawes

#19. I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

Geri Halliwell

#20. They say you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. The same holds true for a dead body. Put lipstick on a corpse and you've played dress-up with a corpse.

Caitlin Doughty

#21. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

Wayne W. Dyer

#22. The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

Shane Smith

#23. There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

Edward Said

#24. Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#25. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

Alain De Benoist

#26. Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#27. Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something. The Arabs are the only ones who've figured this out. They have the sense to call non-Arabic versions of the Criterion interpretations, not translations.

G. Willow Wilson

#28. The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

Paul Feyerabend

#29. I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.

Carl Panzram

#30. Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

Fernando Pessoa

#31. The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

Gyorgy Kepes

#32. I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Barry White

#33. A day without love is like a day without life.

Debasish Mridha

#34. I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff.

King Krule

#35. People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third

Atiku Abubakar

#36. It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Jeffrey Toobin

#37. There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

Ava DuVernay

#38. I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.

Shirley Manson

#39. Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

Terence Koh

#40. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

Ian Fleming