interpretation quotes

Congratulations and bouquets keep pouring in, as if the role of sexuality had been suddenly recognised by His Majesty, the interpretation of dreams confirmed by the Council of Ministers, and the necessity of the psychoanalytic therapy of hysteria carried by a two- thirds majority in Parliament.

- Sigmund Freud
  Letter to Wilhelm Fliess,11 Mar, describing the public enthusiasm in Vienna that greeted his appointment to an associate professorship at the age of 45.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

- Robert Lee Frost
Quoted in Louis Untermeyer Robert Frost:  A Backward Look (1964).

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

- George Horace Gallup
  NBC news,1 Dec.

Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill- defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Raffles and Miss Blandish.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

- Susan Sontag
  In The Evergreen Review, Dec.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

- Norbert Wiener
  The Human Use of Human Beings.