Top 41 Quotes About Referential
#1. How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Yann Martel
#2. I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
Marianne Faithfull
#3. The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.
Jean Baudrillard
#4. Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.
David Foster Wallace
#5. The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.
Craig Owens
#6. Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#7. I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Jim Jarmusch
#8. I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
John Cusack
#9. Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
Sean M. Carroll
#10. I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
Yannis Philippakis
#11. My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.
Brian Ferneyhough
#12. Centerless pop-culture country full of marginalized subnations that are themselves postmodern, looped, self-referential, self-obsessed, voyeuristic, passive, slack-jawed, debased.
D.T. Max
#13. Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and more aware of how God sees us. But these impediments to sin may not come easily.
John Ortberg
#14. The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness.
Douglas Groothuis
#15. Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace the galactic SAT's? Maybe not. In fact, I'd venture that any aliens we ever detect or (less likely) encounter will look quite different than this self-referential stereotype.
Seth Shostak
#16. Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.
Mason Cooley
#17. To forgive, there must have been a wound; and to be wounded, there must have been the gatherings of pride. There is no generosity of heart as long as there is a referential memory, the "me" and the "mine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#18. There was no doubt about it. Chaser had learned Puddin the pony's name in a single trial. Identifying the new object correctly after hearing its name only once indicated that Chaser had achieved a form of referential understanding. Somehow she had grasped the idea that objects can have names.
John W. Pilley
#19. And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
Isaac Asimov
#20. Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Charlie Parker
#21. We all have to leave this world and we don't know when, so make sure you try and live life ... now and then!
Timothy Pina
#22. When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence.
Mary Balogh
#23. For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.
Miller Williams
#24. Order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
Charles Dickens
#25. She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book.
Sasha Summers
#27. The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.
Venita VanCaspel
#28. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.
Paul Theroux
#30. Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.
Emily Arden
#31. Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and
getting the joke, respectively).
David Foster Wallace
#32. I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
Alasdair Gray
#33. Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.
Vladimir Nabokov
#34. As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.
Alice Oseman
#35. Who didn't want the distraction of a willing body to remind you that you hadn't just been made for suffering
Mia Sheridan
#36. I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#37. When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
Henry Flynt
#38. Of Books and Scribes there are no end:
This Plague--and who can doubt it?
Dismays me so, I've sadly penned
Another book about it.
Robert W. Service
#39. The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country.
Beau Bokan
#40. All wounds heal. Even these."
"That's a lie." I tell him.
I'll never be healed of Eo. That pain will last forever.
"Some things do not fade. Some things can never be made right.
Pierce Brown
#41. Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.
Gary Lutz
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