Top 931 Reference Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The army general will always be present because he is a reference for any Cuban communist.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

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

I'm a die-hard fan of the Power Star and like using a Pawan Kalyan reference in all my films.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Usually, I write my scripts first, then think of the actors, or I have a reference of someone.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

Any character that has a reference or baggage or emotional trauma, I personally feel, leaves an impact.

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Baseball-Reference has been very good to me during my career.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

I reference playgrounds a lot because I was always playing on them when I was little.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.