Quotes About Reference

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodóvar.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

If you want to look at a Detroit Free Press published since 2000," the reference librarian said, "you can use a database." "I'll be right over." "Come ahead. Unless you want to access it from your own computer." "I can do that?" "Certainly." The librarian explained how, and she didn't even sound condescending. Librarians are wonderful people.

Naturally the main reference is to Solomon's seven pillars of wisdom,' said Anthony. I saw he was smiling, broadly by now. 'These signify the seven sephiroth of the supra-celestial world, which are the seven measures of the fabric of the celestial and inferior worlds, in which are contained the Ideas of all things both in the celestial and inferior worlds. This should be clear?' I said it was completely clear as anything.

You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it.

You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history,

I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it. This is what poems are.

Proper names are rigid designators.

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.

Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

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It therefore provides a hermeneutical reference point for interpreting all his sayings, including the other Gospel statements from him about divorce and remarriage.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

the context of Ezekiel is the best context by which to interpret the area to which Isaiah referred.

Here, in this book, I will try to show that the guru is actually like the horizon. A horizon is apparent—a line where earth and sky appear to meet. But in reality, they never meet. There is only an illusion of an ending point, a point of reference where we can stand and measure and assess. In this way, the guru is like a horizon between wisdom and method, myth and truth, science and faith. D

This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.

The New Testament alone refers to this awesome event 321 times—in one out of every thirty verses—

I think that much of this criticism fails to take seriously the continuity of themes running through Baldwin's body of work: that he continued to examine questions of American identity and history, railed against the traps of categories that narrowed our frames of reference, insisted that we reject the comfort and illusion of safety that the country's myths offered, and struggled mightily with the delicate balance between his advocacy and his art.

He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.