Quotes About Reference

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

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

Trump was like . . . I love the Bangles! You know that song 'Walk Like an Egyptian'?

A loss, according to the theory, was when a person wound up worse off than his "reference point." But what was this reference point? The easy answer was: wherever you started from.

A trader who expects to be given a million-dollar bonus, and who further expects everyone else on his trading desk to be given million-dollar bonuses, will not maintain the same reference point if he learns that everyone else just received two million dollars. If he is then paid a million dollars, he is back in the domain of losses.

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

One thing that I get from a lot of people with American Gods is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.

A steam locomotive engineer is referred as a 'hogger'; Does this reference have to do with his 'lapping-up' many miles over the silver rails?

Scientists and theologians can't offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: "In reference to what?

An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.

You're only as good as your morgue... An artist is only as good as their morgue. When I say morgue, I'm talking about the artist's visual library of references.

How on the other hand could I make a reference without a new plunge into the hideous obscure?

Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact.

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

For many, his reference to the work of a transcendent mind merely demonstrated that he was unable to abandon an outmoded idealistic approach.

I had a hard time at the bank today. I tried to take out a loan, and they pulled a real attitude with me. Apparently, they won't accept the voices in my head as references.

I was now old enough to see the day when the average teenager (Clarice didn't qualify) couldn't spot a Terminator reference. My time had clearly passed. If we'd been Eskimos, I would have crawled out onto the ice to die. First things first, though. I walked over and pushed Clarice's legs off the couch.

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.