Footnotes Quotes - Page 3

• I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

  Martha Gellhorn

  "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

  Hal Borland

  Failure, Next Week, Today

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• But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

  Lisa See

  Book, Looks, Maps

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• The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

  Anthony Shadid

  Writing, Journalism, Sometimes

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• What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Views, Agreement

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

  Bill Gates

  Horse, Dark, Race

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.

  Ted Leo

  Song, Land, Ideas

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Pluto, Grew

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• I'm just a footnote in the grand scheme of things. Brother Walfrid was the visionary who started things and his is a name that should stay in people's minds.

  Fergus McCann

  Brother, Names, People

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Queens, Book, Fate

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• Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Innovation, Good Things, Human Condition

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• I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Warren Buffet, Buffett

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

  Alexander Chee

  Looks, Use, Maps

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

  Lauren Willig

  Battle, Usual, Sniping

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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• Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Want, Saws

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

  Louie Psihoyos

  War, Greatness, Creating

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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• At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.

  Louie Psihoyos

  War, Loss, Impact

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

  Gene Weingarten

  Kings, Book, Doctors

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• I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

  Jef Raskin

  People, Design, Principles

  Interview in "The Guardian", October 21, 2004.

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.

  Arlene Dahl

  Men, Ideas, Tongue

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• Novelists never have to footnote.

  Jane Smiley

  Novelists

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Moo”, p.324, Anchor

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• Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Strings Attached, Balance, Needs

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