Quotes About Personal References

#1. There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

Carine Roitfeld

#3. I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Michael Connelly

#4. Pangborn took the satchel by the straps. "What is it?" "A bomb." The mechanic's eyes widened. "Thanks?

Larry Correia

#5. [We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people ... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.

Jean-Paul Marat

#6. He that does not repent, sins again.

Benjamin Whichcote

#7. Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.
"I can't dance like Cassidy," she says.
"Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.

Tim Tharp

#8. We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it - by making it lower case.

Geoffrey Wood

#9. Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

Jeffrey Deitch

#10. I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

Philippa Gregory

#11. God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

Gerald Stern

#14. It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources.

Steven S. Skiena

#15. Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

Reinaldo Arenas

#16. I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.

Larry McMurtry