Quotes About Paraphrase

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

haste ere some thrush with silver several tears complete the perfumed paraphrase of death)

We believe in Quine, the father of metaontology, and in his criterion of ontological commitment. Which for us ontologists and for our craft was perfectly born in On What There Is . We believe in one catholic and first-order logic. We acknowledge one method—paraphrase—for the remission of ontological sins. And when paraphrase fails, we accept without shame the entities required by our best theories. Amen.

I paraphrased Edwards with the words, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Here my paraphrase is: "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever." This is the essence of what I call "Christian hedonism.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.