Top 380 References Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.
Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear.
[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt.
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.
For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.
'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.
People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
From politics to getting replaced by another actor or not getting references, I'm done with all of it.
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.
Initially, I'd written a normal love song. Later, I wrote Corona Kannala.' I say cheesy because we used a lot of contemporary references.
I draw cinematic and photography and art references from everywhere. That's part of my job. So yes, you watch films, you see artists for palettes, photographers for mood.
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.
I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.
Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.
There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.
Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.
I guess I will always be known as a designer who references Ibiza, even though I've only been to the island a couple of times in my early twenties.
Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.
