Floating Point Interpretive

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

    “Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.”
    —Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)

    “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)