Citation Quotes

#1. My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy Citation, which is the exact same car that I bought from a guy in San Francisco called Sandy Boone. I showed up on set, and James Earl Jones was driving the car I had bought from Sandy for $250.

Leland Orser

#2. And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.

Laura Mullen

#3. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.

Eric Blehm

#4. Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Abraham Pais

#5. I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.

Jameis Winston

#6. Spaces again. I guess one citation wasn't enough." Pendergast pulled out the previous ticket. "You mean this?" "That's right." Pendergast neatly tore it in half and tucked the pieces back into his pocket. The chief frowned.

Douglas Preston

#7. I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

Bill Gates

#8. There's no absolutely reliable way to achieve a great citation. However,
hardworking could be fruitful.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. Falling from great heights is dangerous.[citation needed] A balloon could

Randall Munroe

#10. Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

E.L. Doctorow

#12. I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

Fay Wray

#13. The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Arto Lindsay

#14. One understands why law clerks follow the Bluebook. But why a judge would direct his law clerks to do so, or even tolerate their doing so, is a mystery to me. Are judges sheep? Why should they care what kids at the Harvard Law Review consider proper abbreviation?

Richard A. Posner

#15. It is the circuit of the great ruinous deed when the name of the seventh is that of the fifth; when the third, even greater, the warlike stranger will take Paris, nor will Provence save her.

Nostradamus

#16. Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must be properly introduced.

Jakub Marian

#17. Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

Rachel Ward

#18. Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

#21. [An example of misattribution:]

If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.

- Mark Twain

Jakub Marian

#22. It's obvious that women are smarter than men. Think about it - diamonds are a girl's best friend; man's best friend is a dog.

Joan Rivers

#23. My bones are my unique home.

Laure Lacornette

#24. The man who reproaches you is unfair;
You're a woman and not a saint.

Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

#25. The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.

Laure Lacornette

#26. My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style.

Sirio Maccioni

#27. Peace above all, even above love.

Laure Lacornette

#28. My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

Will Ferrell

#29. The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.

Ross Macdonald

#30. Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?

Mary Caroline Richards

#31. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#32. If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !

Laure Lacornette

#33. You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#34. For all I see, humanity is lost. It's devastatingly sad.

Laure Lacornette