Martin Mull Quotes

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Life's all about perceptions.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Facts do not speak.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Your frame of reference is what you see.