Referencing Quotes

• My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

  Tavis Smiley

  Kings, People, Roles

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• There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

  Alan Autry

  Eugenics, Choices, Valleys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

  Harold Ramis

  Smart, Years, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Reflection, Water

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think going back to the early days of the show [Suits], even back to the pilot, we've always used movie references. It's always just been intertwined in the life of the show, and that is born out of my - everything to me reminds me of a movie that I've seen, so I'm constantly in my life referencing those things.

  Aaron Korsh

  Thinking, Pilots, Suits

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Religious, Titles, Nazareth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

  Brian Chippendale

  Artist, Sound, Different

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I'm thinking of a presidential bid; currently indexing and cross-referencing everyone I've tweeted my junk to. 8x10s available.

  Christopher Titus

  Thinking, Presidential, Junk

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• Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 'Jessica Jones' is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue, in terms of referencing the Marvel Universe, but it glances off of the other stories.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Animal, Thinking, Stories

  Source: deadline.com

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• I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

  Bill Frisell

  Kids, Heard, Knows

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• It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...

  Simon Pegg

  Mean, Hands, Done

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

  John Darnielle

  Different, Projects, Multiple

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• Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

  Michael Patrick King

  Years, People, Compliment

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• How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Self, Looks, Evolution

  "The Sanjaya Installation". www.funnyordie.com. May 22, 2007.

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• The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.

  Charles de Lint

  Fun, Real, Book

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• I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

  Christian Marclay

  Art, Culture, Abstract

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

  Philip Schuyler

  Rights, Police, States

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• Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

  Richelle Mead

  Clever, Hands, Truth Is

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.191, Zebra Books

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