Floating Point Interpretive

Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or interpretive:

    “They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,—and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)