Footnoted Quotes

#1. Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

Ravi Zacharias

#3. I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Malcolm Turnbull

#4. I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Daniel Clowes

#5. I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

Eva Green

#6. If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.

Alister E. McGrath

#7. Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

Bret McKenzie

#8. A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

Miguel Syjuco

#9. The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things ... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Aristotle.

#10. What are you eating?" he ask us.
"Whatever won't kill me, please" I said.
"Whatever don't kill you'll make you stronger" says Eddie, who is always ready with folksy wisdom.
"All right," I say. "Then give me whatever will make me stronger."
"One pizza, coming up.

Adam Selzer

#11. Enoch considered the defiance in the painted eyes and the subtle perversion expressed with curling lips, and then he touched a pair of frozen lips as if the smiling portrait might whisper some secret word into his hand.

W.H. Pugmire

#12. I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

Erick Erickson

#13. Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Tacitus

#14. Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers

Edwin Arnold

#15. I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?

Charles Schwab

#16. I find clothes so constricting!

Raquel Welch