Quotes About Reinterpretation

#1. and withholding. Everything I get from them is either inconclusive or subject to reinterpretation. Nothing is as it appears.

Michael Brandman

#2. I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing ... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

Spike Lee

#3. Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Denzel Washington

#4. All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers' existence during the time the fiction was written.

William Gibson

#5. Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

#6. Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

Andrew Rosenthal

#7. Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

Kelli O'Hara

#8. No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Imre Lakatos

#9. The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

Brock Chisholm

#10. Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

David Mitchell

#11. The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into Heaven. The reinterpretation of the world is the transfer of all perception to knowledge.

Helen Shucman

#12. Stretch the envelop; losers are not the stuff of legends.

John Wayne Falbey

#13. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

Pythagoras

#15. You cannot choose your battlefield,
God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.
(From The Colors)

Nathalia Crane

#16. An imperfect something is better than a perfect nothing.

-Me

Marcus V. Calvert

#17. If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

Ntozake Shange

#18. I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

Robin Hobb

#19. When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

Danica McKellar

#20. The Gospel calls us to change people by serving them, not by telling them what to do.

Andrew B. Heard

#21. The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit ... A christian is fearless.

Tertullian

#22. Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,

Beverly Cleary

#23. I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

Magic Johnson

#24. Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

Dustin Hoffman

#25. God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.

Billy Graham