Referring Quotes

Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

Buck Brannaman

Horse, Animal, Expression

"The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

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There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

Believe, Scrooge, Hallucinations

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When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Angela Davis

Democracy, Wonder

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Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

Thom Yorke

Strange, Divine, Humans

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Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.

David Robert Whitehouse

Views, Media, Should Have

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Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

Jacques Barzun

Silence, Spirit, Ineffable

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Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos.

Dov Davidoff

Tattoo, Sound, Homemade

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My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Blessed, Ambition

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Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

John Clute

Dream, Book

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For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

Adolf Hitler

Country, Men, Fire

Speech at the Reichstag, May 04, 1941. "Infamous Speeches: From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden". Book by Bob Blaisdell, 2012.

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Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Dave Barry

Fathers Day, Mother, Passion

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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

Tim Ferriss

Live Life, Passion, Circles

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You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

Megan McCafferty

Falling In Love, Love You, Artist

Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1018, Crown

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I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

Melina Marchetta

Confused, Talking, Ideas

Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Simone de Beauvoir

Men, Feminist, Use

Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

Megan Whalen Turner

Kings, Queens, Children

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Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

John Green

Crush, Girl, Believe

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After searching for a space, I parked behind the tattoo parlor in front of a sign that said NO PARKING. Since it didn't specify to whom it was referring, I figured it couldn't possibly be talking to me.

Darynda Jones

Tattoo, Talking, Space

Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.105, Macmillan

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Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?" "Jessamy." "I concede that point." Elena referring to Galen

Nalini Singh

Heart, Weapons, Masters

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Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

Jim Wallis

Life, Jesus, Peace

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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Drama, Ideas, Tragedy

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I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Duke Ellington

Believe, Kind, Problem

Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

Wayne Dyer

Struggle, Responsibility, Successful

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 10, 2015

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[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
[Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

Daniel J. Boorstin

Book, Science, Library

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When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

Carl Barat

Nightlife, Said, Courses

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