Quotes About Reference

Some time later, long after 'Voyager' was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version, and it told me the Dunbonnet's name - which was James Fraser.

I'm a big veteran of being able to, in one comic, explain to you everything that you need to know to get forward in the story without you having to refer back to years of continuity and a universe in these superhero comics.

That's what's "special" in special relativity: the "special" inertial frames are only a small subset of all possible reference frames.

Sure it was an odd coincidence for Gage Burton to be in possession of a fly she'd designed and given to her abductor, and for that fly to be tucked in between the pages of a news story that referenced Sebastian. But coincidences happened.

That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell. I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.

He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read—most faeries were studiously averse to print.

I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

Cross my heart and hope to die. I wonder where that comes from." "It's a reference to the crucifixion. It's like knock on wood . That's a reference to the wooden cross.

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon. Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it. Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference. "Yonder uplands are rich pasturage, and my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field," says the querulous farmer, "only holds the world together.

Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred? When she looked blank, he sighed. What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.

Equality as it is currently pursued is incompatible with true liberty; for liberty involves an inner working with reference to standards, the right subordination, in other words, of man's ordinary will to a higher will. There is an inevitable clash, in short, between equality and humility.

To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

No, I'm fine. And yes, I mean that sort of FINE," said Reine-Marie, making reference to the title of one of Ruth's poetry books, where FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

You were going to say the Death Star, weren't you?" "Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars.

Years ago, before the internet and electronic ways to investigate intellectual property thefts, publishers would put traps into books. Fictitious entries in reference books, to catch copyright thieves. Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is the most famous.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.