Floating Point Interpretive

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

    “We sank a foot deep in water and mud at every step, and sometimes up to our knees, and the trail was almost obliterated, being no more than that a musquash leaves in similar places, where he parts the floating sedge. In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)