References Quotes

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Thomas Sowell

Power, Society, Help

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
Tori Amos

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Water, Books, Drink

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
Kate Moss

Mind, Different, Playing

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
John Malkovich

Life, Children, Remember

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
Vladimir Putin

Fight, Human, Rights

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 Almodovar.
Antonio Banderas

Life, Work, Done

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.
Michael Sheen

Life, Makes, Culture

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Ernest Istook

Religion, Nothing, Holiday

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
Seth Rogen

Why, Culture, Popular

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart

Feeling, Around, Sense

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection.
Georgina Chapman

Through, Fashion, Moment

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
John Hodgman

Brain, Meaningful, Cultural

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, American, Write

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
Dennis Kucinich

Faith, Nature, Body

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Michel Hazanavicius

American, Talking, Maybe

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
Lauren Graham

God, Somebody, Oh

There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.
Daniel H. Wilson

Personal, Actually, Movie

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
Thomas Haden Church

Important, Two, Writer

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
Joanna Newsom

Music, Different, Wanted

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
Michael Connelly

Past, Made, Two

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick

Nature, Play, Again

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Jan Karon

Food, Writing, Hungry

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
Tracy Chapman

Death, Together, Big

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Gregg Easterbrook

Fear, Powerful, Understand

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
Poppy Z. Brite

Death, Book, Here

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Jim Hodges

Young, Wonderful, Color

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons

Game, Finding, Literary

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.
Boris Trajkovski

Peace, Lost, Remember

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