Commentaries Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks… — A. S. Byatt
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their… — Henry Ward Beecher
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ? — Jim Elliot
I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Dale Purves
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. — Abel Ferrara
I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries. — Jay Roach
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries — Howard G. Hendricks
Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible.… — Reuben Archer Torrey
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never… — Faye Wattleton
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape… — Ralph P. Martin
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. — George Santayana
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible… — Jack Dee
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice… — Michel Foucault
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but… — Michel de Montaigne
And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as… — Robert Jordan

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