Top 301 Referring Quotes & Sayings

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

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.

If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

I don't know who you're referring to exactly who said, 'What has Iraq done to us?'

Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

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

Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.

I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.

These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

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

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

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

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're not referring to somebody who has an accent who's slightly different to theirs.

Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

I'm not referring to an up-and-coming comedian. I am referring to the host of The Profit. He invests his own money into small businesses that need to be turned around. He becomes partners in them. And I love the way he does business, and I love his integrity, and I love where his head's at, and I love what he has to say, and I learn from him.

A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

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

I urge the media to start referring to climate skeptics as what they really are: climate assholes.

When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.