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I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with. — Katy Perry

Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book. — Danielle Ellison

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. — Fanny Brice

This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions. — David Deutsch

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. — Julian Casablancas

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available. — Richard Brown

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice. — Debbie Ford

Structs are value types and classes are reference types. — B.J. Miller

Throw away the rule book and create your own. — Sandra Bellamy

The reminder that other lives had tragedies without reference to his own was both salutary and painful. — Katherine Addison

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with. — Joseph Jarman

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. — Sorin Cerin

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.
Atticus O'Sullivan — Kevin Hearne

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs. — Mirah

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference. — Laverne Cox

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver

That is a fart without wind ... in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny. — Faye Kellerman

The conscience is a communal organ - a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others. — Ken Wilson

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face. — Derek Landy

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it. — Tariq Ramadan

To acquire a new perspective we must change our point of reference. — Ted Agon

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies. — Rebecca Makkai

The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away. — Michel Houellebecq

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk. — Sonia Rykiel

Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher. — Donna Tartt

Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you. — Marissa Meyer

He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules. — David Chiles

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together. My gut clenches at the reference to the way my — Lisa Renee Jones

pointer is simply a variable that stores the address of something else in the same way as a reference. The — Christian Nagel

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. — Robert Genn

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm? — Mike Tucker

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus

With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally. — Harvey Mason Jr.

Kryptonite doesn't bother me, either. — Stephenie Meyer

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference. — Steven Heighton

Oh, God. I'm trapped in the fucking Chronicles of Narnia."
"I'm sure that would be an amusing reference, if I understood it. — Richelle Mead

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.' — Esther Hicks

I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. — Moby

I figured I'd duck out ... before Goody Osbourne took the stand. — Megan Abbott

Our problems could be higher than the mountain but the God we serve is the most high God, in Him all things are possible. — Euginia Herlihy

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. — James Madison

Remember, there is no 'up' or 'down' in this universe we are creating; everything is merely a frame of reference. — Alexander Kosoris

Your past is a place for reference, not residence. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it. — Lev Grossman

Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.
"Always," Parker said. — Greg Cox

I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference. — Terry Tempest Williams

What's a dementor?"
I mean, I can't even. "Nora, you are no longer my sister."
"So it's some Harry Potter thing," she says. — Becky Albertalli

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

Sorry, this is the circulation desk. To reserve an item you have to go to the reference desk right over there. — Myself

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. — Constance Baker Motley

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all. — Robert Downey Jr.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. — Jill Lepore

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend. — Benedict Jacka

God bless the Reference Librarians — James Lee Burke

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them. — Lucy Grealy

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good. — Fulton J. Sheen

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. — John Kenneth Galbraith

THAT'S THE POINT, SHERLOCK!', — John Green

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from ... not to create a past for you to be stuck in. — Steve Maraboli

Next time a talking head ended up in my easy chair, I would have all sorts of points of reference, but at that moment, I was completely at sea. — Lish McBride

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons. — Ruth Downie

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go. — Jim Lee

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives. — Ruben Ostlund

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. — Jean-Paul Sartre

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. — R.D. Laing

He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read - most faeries were studiously averse to print. — Jim Butcher

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records. — Martin Gore

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. — Charles De Lint

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. — Thomas Aquinas

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth. — Corinne Maier

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. — Gloria Estefan

I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles. — Charles Bukowski

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch

The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points — Raghu Rai

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. — Yann Martel

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy. — Holly Black

I filed him in my mental database under Useless Prick, for future reference. — Tana French

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq

Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero. — Steven Brust

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. — Cassandra Clare

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is. — Robert Frost

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G.Wells

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. — Seth Rogen

No reference is truly direct - every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is. — Douglas Hofstadter

He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime. — James S.A. Corey

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have. — Josh Dun

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. — Joseph Campbell

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. — Willard Van Orman Quine