Interpreting Quotes

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

The true beauty of life can only be seen by the eye of habitual positive interpretations of one's experiences.

Your fears in life are only as fearful as you constantly interpret them to be.

Your life can only be as beautiful as you repeatedly interpret it to be.

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.