Floating Point Interpretive

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

    “Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy—but he who has shown the better temper.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “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)