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Quotes About Reference

Their romance has started in earnest this summer, but the prologue took up the whole previous year. All fall and spring of the previous year they lived with exclusive reference to each other, and were viewed as an unspoken duo by everyone else.
~ Susan Choi
When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order.
~ Anouska Hempel
He was the one I compared all others to.
~ C.J. English
3. CHECK THE INDEX
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Even a cursory perusal reveals a very great range of reference. There is hardly a single human action that has not been called—in one way or another—an act of love. Nor is the range confined to the human sphere. If you proceed far enough in your reading, you will find that love has been attributed to almost everything in the universe; that is, everything that exists has been said by someone either to love or to be loved—or both.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Did Lou have Luke—isn't that your little boy's name?—here in the Shakespeare hospital?
~ Charlaine Harris
More often than not, UAWs allow "significant others" to determine their financial lifestyle. Interestingly, these "significant others," or reference groups, turn out to be more imagined than real.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
The reggae reference was lost on Slidell, whose musical taste ran to C&W and sixties rock and roll. Barrow
~ Kathy Reichs
The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.
~ Ken Wilson
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
~ Kenneth Joseph Arrow
For no matter what our religion, culture, or belief is, we always have a common reference point: the Self, who is the ultimate observer. The Self is the Way!
~ Kenneth S. Leong
definition onto market, which we will define, for the purposes of high tech, as • a set of actual or potential customers • for a given set of products or services • who have a common set of needs or wants, and • who reference each other when making a buying decision.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
Encyclopedias don't win wars.
~ Isaac Asimov
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
~ Thornton Wilder
Sometimes when working on TV, especially when doing procedural cop work, you can refer to your notes. Your notes, of course, do contain, naturally, all the information you need.
~ Adrian Dunbar
'Morning Star' is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it's also referenced twice in the Bible - once for Lucifer and once for Jesus.
~ Pierce Brown
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
~ Douglas Coupland
In 1973, the library even added a service called the Hoot Owl Telephonic Reference, which operated from nine P.M. until one A.M., long after the library was closed. Dialing H-O-O-T-O-W-L connected you to a librarian who could find the answer to almost any question.
~ Susan Orlean
Encyclopedias?" he asked George. "So damn heavy.
~ Susan Orlean
'Hispanic' is a reference to Hispania, the name by which Spain was known in the Roman period, and there has always been strong ambivalence toward Spain in its former colonies.
~ Ilan Stavans
We use reference points in our heads, say sales projections, and start building beliefs around them because less mental effort is needed to compare an idea to a reference point than to evaluate it in the absolute (System 1 at work!). We cannot work without a point of reference.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designed for his own reference only.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
pivoted the results on our Criminal Records Bureau and National Insurance database mirrors to get the place of work for everyone who's on the books, and the pre-processor is turning that into grid reference data so we can plot them on a map or query for areas where the rate of that's funny . . .
~ Charles Stross
The only question," Eve mused aloud, "is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.
~ Charles Stross