Top 380 References Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references).

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

I take references from the past and flip them.

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.

Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.

Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

Always verify your references.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.

When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.

I love historical references.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

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.

Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

There are no answers, only cross references.

References drive the industry.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

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

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

We grow up with certain cultural references but we need empathy to understand other people.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

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

The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was 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!

We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language, culture, all this stuff - but to be well-versed in Western references as well.

I grew up in a time where there were no queer digital references.

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

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

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

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

You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references.

The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels.

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

There might be an Easter egg in there that I'm missing [in Timeless], I'll have to look again, but there are pop culture references, for sure. There are a lot of references that you would only understand if you've seen the movie The Untouchables.

It's true, there aren't many explicit references to Canada in my book. And not many explicit references to the U.S., either. I try to fill my poems with enough real, observed detail that the poems create a believable world - but I don't write poems for the sake of telling my own story. My life is not important or interesting enough to warrant that kind of documentary. Instead I try to use my experience as a way of understanding situations that are common to many people. I want readers to project their own lives onto my poems.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.