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If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.
— Ilona Andrews
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
We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.
— Nike Thaddeus
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
— S.R. Ranganathan
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
The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.
— Bruce Glover
Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.
— Billy Graham
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
— Wendell Berry
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
— Michael Phelps
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.
— William A. Dembski
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
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
— Beryl Bainbridge
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
— A.P. Herbert
Without time as a reference, the mind sits idly by and wanders into the ways of dark imaginings and evil works ~Hecate — M.L. Stephens
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall
Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) — Paula Hawkins
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
— Miranda July
The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
— Cees Nooteboom
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!
— Thomas Chalmers
He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.
— Terry Pratchett
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
— Nigel Dennis
Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.
— Eoin Colfer
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.
— Anupam Kher
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
— Oscar Wilde
All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse.
— Brian Jacques
So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.
— John Hodgman
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
— Immanuel Kant
In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
— Alfred Hitchcock
What is meant by 'nut bag'? Is that a testicular reference or merely the identification of a satchel of cashews or pecans?
— Jessica Park
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
— Hunter S. Thompson
How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
— Julian Barnes
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.
— Lana Del Rey
What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.
— Sarah Moon
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
— Willie Jolley
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
— Graham Joyce
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston S. Churchill
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think he's handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.
— Cassandra Clare
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
— Gloria Estefan
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
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
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
pointer is simply a variable that stores the address of something else in the same way as a reference. The
— Christian Nagel
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
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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
To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
— Jill Lepore
I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.
— Ruben Ostlund
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— Thomas Aquinas
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
You desire to become a pirate?" N7 asked. "No," I said, "a Viking." "I do not understand your reference.
— Vaughn Heppner
Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.
— Linda Austin
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
— Margaret Atwood
I held it in my hands like it was a baby (and, just for reference, I hold babies like they are snakes).
— Karina Halle
For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower.
— Nalini Singh
Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.
— David Chiles
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
Remember, there is no 'up' or 'down' in this universe we are creating; everything is merely a frame of reference.
— Alexander Kosoris
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
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
Your past is a place for reference, not residence.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson