Quotes About Author

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

I am the most conservative person you will ever come across, and that's because I'm good at reducing risks while leaving the potential rewards high.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.

Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.

I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

It is an honour and it's flattering that people refer to me as someone they trust or get inspired from.

When you see an article it always has 'disgraced NBA referee.' It's embarrassing and it's never going to be okay. Unfortunately, I have to move forward and just make things different moving forward.

Jake Roberts started in Mid-South as a referee. We're pretty close, and we come from the same school of thought when it comes to the psychology of wrestling.

I think a letter is more ceremonial than anything. Personally, I think it's just a reason to go talk to the referee.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

I used 'Saved by the Bell: The College Years' as my reference point really for my 'Fresh Meat' experience.

I'm a die-hard fan of the Power Star and like using a Pawan Kalyan reference in all my films.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

I grew up on a very specific diet of certain weird movies. Of course, being black, there are more black movies in there. I'll get to bring some of those references into 'Mystery Science Theater 3000.'

I'm going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the E.U.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.