Hairspray Racism Quotes & Sayings

Whether one likes it or not, every reader is at the same time an interpreter. That is, most of us assume as we read that we also understand what we read. We also tend to think that our understanding is the same thing as the Holy Spirit's or human author's intent. However, we invariably bring to the text all that we are, with all of our experiences, culture, and prior understandings of words and ideas. Sometimes what we bring to the text, unintentionally to be sure, leads us astray, or else causes us to read all kinds of foreign ideas into the text. — Gordon D. Fee

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron. — Irving Stone

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000. — Patricia Schroeder

If one refuses to receive baptism, it is evidence of unbelief and a rejection of God's commands. — Jordan Cooper

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision — Soren Kierkegaard

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;
and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,
then certes the soul does not inhabit there. — Laurence Sterne

Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know. — David Levi Strauss

To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3 — William P. Farley

In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas. — Janet Fitch

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale. — Channing Tatum

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective. — Clive Thompson

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me. — Antonia Thomas

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation. — Leila Meacham

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back. — Greg Maddux