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The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels.
— James R. Lewis
All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
— Lauren Graham
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts
I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.
— Olivier Megaton
I take references from the past and flip them.
— Theophilus London
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
— Jeff Koons
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
— Alethea Kontis
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
— Dorothy Parker
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,
— Lubov Azria
Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
— Jack Zipes
My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.
— Clemence Poesy
Take it easy now - I've got first-class references from people who've been punched in the face by me. All of them were completely satisfied.
— Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
— Jim Hodges
What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and ...
— Christopher Golden
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.
— John Cleese
Imagine a landscape of nothing but astrology references and naughty limericks. That's what you're going to reduce me to.
— Chloe Neill
You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.
— Peter Capaldi
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
— Bruce LaBruce
No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was ... a thing, a commodity.
— C.J. Roberts
Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
— Brooke Shields
Please don't mix Marvel and DC references. You're better than that, he said, shaking his head disdainfully.
— Molly Harper
You know all your Norse mythology and chess references make you a nerd, right? Deep down under all that muscle, ink, and leather, you're a huge nerd.
— Susan Fanetti
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
— J.J. Abrams
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
— John Malkovich
I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy.
— Charles Darwin
How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
— Julian Barnes
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
— John Hodgman
Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.
— Josh Lanyon
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
— Mika.
When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references.
— Marley Shelton
This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.
— Patricia Briggs
Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
— Clarence Benjamin Jones
You know you are changing
when you no longer have points of references.
Mapping a new life. — Natasha Tsakos
when you no longer have points of references.
Mapping a new life. — Natasha Tsakos
The words are merely references to something not present
— Tor Norretranders
Tell him to shut up! Tell him there's no crying in baseball!
— Stephen King
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
— Jonathan Lethem
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
— Solange Knowles
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
— Shepard Fairey
Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.
But then, do we know what references we still hold on? — Sapan Saxena
But then, do we know what references we still hold on? — Sapan Saxena
The references you do not verify are the good ones.
— Charles Peguy
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
— Vladimir Putin
My name is Isaac Vainio," I said. "You smashed my library. Prepare to die."
Everything went better with Princess Bride references. — Jim C. Hines
Everything went better with Princess Bride references. — Jim C. Hines
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
— Rick Perlstein
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
— Michel Hazanavicius
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
— Benjamin Hart
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
— Matt Mullenweg
You're pining," said Jace.
Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why - — Cassandra Clare
Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why - — Cassandra Clare
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.
— Mark Kozelek
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
— Charles Dickens
Trust a bloody angel to take four sentences and two Biblical references to say, 'bugger me, isn't there a lot of choice at Tesco.
— Heide Goody
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
— Ernest Istook
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.
— Boris Trajkovski
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
— Guido Palau
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
— Marcel Proust
References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual
— Dan Brown
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
You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references.
— David Wolfe
My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury
"Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury
Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.
— Mark Eddy Smith
There are no answers, only cross references
— Norbert Wiener
We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
— Gregory David Roberts
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"
— Tim Burton
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
— Jan Karon
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.
— Sam Altman
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood ... she just jokes.
— Saina Nehwal
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
— James Hunter
It is necessary to possess the oldest manuscripts, they aid genuine references in case of doubt.
— Auliq Ice
Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon. — Cassandra Clare
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon. — Cassandra Clare
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
— Carlisle Floyd
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
— Bart Chilton
The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. — Yrsa Daley-Ward
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love. — Yrsa Daley-Ward
Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.
— Anders Holm
Always verify your references.
— Martin Routh
I love pop culture
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami
the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism. — Haruki Murakami
I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
— Xavier Dolan
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
— Paul Auster
You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
— Jay Sankey
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
— Dan Simmons
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
— Jonathan Ive
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
— Van Morrison
Right, right, I get it, you're a doctor, not a hacker.
— Rachel Bach
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
— Ming-Dao Deng
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
— Gerald Stern
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
— Nathan Fillion