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Quotes About Citation

Aucun ouvrage de référence au monde, avec ses citations, ne peut remplacer le lien organique qu'une affirmation trouvée par nous-même établit avec notre intuition et notre attention, si bien qu'il se forme une véritable richesse pour notre esprit. »
~ Jacob Burckhardt
They knew that the outer surface of truth is not smooth, welling and gathering from paragraph to shapely paragraph, but is encrusted with a rough protective bark of citations, quotation marks, italics and foreign languages, a whole variorum crust of 'ibid.'s' and 'compare's' and 'see's' that are the shield for the pure flow of argument as it lives for a moment in one mind…
~ Nicholson Baker
The most explicit such passage is, of course, Acts 2:14-21, which as previously noted includes an extended citation of a portion of Joel (2:28-32) that predicts that "in the last days" God will "pour out" the Spirit and that this will signal "the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Miss Quote is so inaccurate She never gets it right; Miss Attribute does so too Forever wrongly cite, Spreading literary blight!
~ Terri Guillemets
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
~ Peter Bayle
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
~ John Cooper Clarke
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
But intersubjectivity in the text occurs through intertextuality, when distinctions between original and citation become blurred.
~ Chris Kraus
Usually, although not always, being able to cite a close approximation of the time of death is not so helpful to defense attorneys--especially if their client is guilty.
~ Unknown
Derrida has argued that communication is always subject to iterability, citation and grafting. If so, it can't be taken as a guaranteed, masterable passage of meanings. Language, Derrida says, is a "non-masterable dissemination". If that's the case, we lose absolute assurance that we can "say what we mean" or "know what someone is thinking".
~ Jeff Collins
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
~ Alex Lifeson
Do you imagine that they're going to issue me a citation...what was your name again? Still Eve. No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm such a stickler for veracity that I hired nine fact-checkers to go through every citation of the How Not to Die manuscript, and I committed to the same rigor with this book.
~ Michael Greger