Referring Quotes - Page 2

• When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

  Antonin Artaud

  Life, Understanding, Facts

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• (Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

  Victor Borge

  Piano, Shapes, Opera

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• If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Horse, Oats, Sparrows

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• Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

  J. D. Salinger

  Ego, Littles, Happens

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.

  Sloane Crosley

  Simple, Years, Going Away

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Penguin

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• Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

  Suzanne Collins

  Joy, Gold, Would Be

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Maturity

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• When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Use, Individual, Including

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• These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Eye, Holy Grail

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

  Dennis Miller

  God, Stupidity, Four

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• I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
  [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

  Hannes Alfven

  Ideas, Peers, Conflict

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

  Paul Vitz

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

  Chanakya

  Country, Speaks Out, Knowing

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• I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Thinking, Brain

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

  Orrin Hatch

  Fear, September 11, World

  "Witnesses and leaders on terrorist attacks". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Sports, Order, Consistency

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• People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

  Nick Offerman

  Writing, People, Brilliant

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kings, Twilight, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants.

  Michael Moore

  Liars, Wmd, Drunk

  Statement in 2004. "'Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it'" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Eye, Past

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.

  Chris Hoy

  Race, People, Support

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• [Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Memories, Eye, Animal

  James A. Michener, Alan C. Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daphne du Maurier, Sixta, A.J. Cronin, Captain J. Y. Cousteau with Frederic Dumas (1953). “THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT”

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