Top 100 Refer To Quotes
#1. Let's refer to it as Saturday, rather than the day of my hanging, shall we?
Julie Anne Long
#2. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
#3. All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.
James E. Faust
#4. If only time never came to its senses. If somehow it wouldn't succeed in walking a straight line. If it would only lurch, behave nonsensically, fall to pieces. And we would watch, and, condemning its actions, would never have to refer to it again.
Elif Shafak
#5. The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It's by far the most dangerous epidemic among us.
Erik Valeur
#6. Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.
J.K. Rowling
#7. We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.
Tim Pawlenty
#8. The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
Werner Heisenberg
#9. We can speak, think, refer to ourselves as agents, and so build up the false idea of a persisting self that has consciousness and free will.
John Brockman
#10. We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator ... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
Alan King
#11. Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is absolutely conditional. We know it does not refer to mosquitoes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#12. The noted Yale computer science professor Edward Tufte once observed that there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: computer designers and drug dealers. Importantly, you are equally as likely to recover damages from either of them for the harms their products cause.
Marc Goodman
#13. Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle.
David Brier
#14. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#15. To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us as 'Irish relatives.'
Bill Maher
#16. I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
Thomas Harris
#17. Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?
Patton Oswalt
#18. What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
Sally Phillips
#19. I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
David Sedaris
#20. He held up his index finger. "Rule one: in any dispute between mates, the
male is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two" - his middle finger joined the
first - "whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.
C.L. Wilson
#21. If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
Steven Burd
#22. Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.
Jaggi Vasudev
#23. I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.
Ismail Kadare
#24. I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
Boris Yeltsin
#25. We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigations anything about the creative processes used by God.
Duane Gish
#26. What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
Alice Hoffman
#27. I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.
Don Piper
#28. Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!
Elie Ducommun
#30. Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
Dave Barry
#31. I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.
Adele
#32. We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.
Humberto Maturana
#33. In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.
Jean Klein
#34. We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'
Willie Robertson
#35. In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.
Frederick Lenz
#36. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
Roger Ballen
#37. Many of those who refer to Orwell seem not to have read much more than Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, if those. The millions who have heard of Big Brother and Room 101 know nothing of their progenitor.
Peter Davidson
#38. When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
Rachel Held Evans
#39. I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.
Carlos Wallace
#40. Sometimes she speaks of 'the past' as people speak who have been in prison. But you never know whether they refer to the crime or the imprisonment or the whole experience.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. Physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world," and that "we have measured the value of the world with categories that refer to a purely fabricated world.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#42. It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.
David Spade
#43. The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
#44. Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first ... If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first ... one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
Calvin Coolidge
#45. We refer to Lyft as a 'mullet app.' Simple up front, a lot going on in the back.
Logan Green
#46. On a cooler sun on a primordial earth:
I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'
because we has a dim sun.
Bill Bryson
#47. Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#48. He did indeed always refer to us as swine, but there was, nevertheless, a certain respect in his tone.
Erich Maria Remarque
#49. There's Buddha. If ever I met a hippy-slacker-God, it's Buddha. Just yesterday I had this strange run in with him. 'Buddha bless you,' he says to me. Out of the blue. So I ask him, 'Why do you refer to yourself in the third person?' He smiled at me, his eyes bloodshot and half-closed.
Dylan Callens
#50. There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue
those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS
but they remain strangely silent ...
Bill Hicks
#51. As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.
Brenda Brathwaite
#52. Arcadius was nothing but an old hack, what Cenzars used to refer to as a faquin, an elven term for the most inept magician - knowledge without talent.
Michael J. Sullivan
#53. When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#54. Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
Alice Hoffman
#55. Should the basic financial statements refer to the SI? No. The basic financial statements should not refer to or report on the supplementary information.
Charles Hall
#56. Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.
Judith Rascoe
#57. The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing purpose, as if they were made out of some funny plastic. What did they actually refer to? It seemed that they all might refer to money ...
Deborah Eisenberg
#58. We shouldn't refer to the Spirit as "it"; instead we should always refer to the Spirit as "He" - because the Holy Spirit is a Person. He speaks to us, He commands us, He intercedes for us, He hears us, He guides us.
Billy Graham
#59. Why refer to the prosperity gospel phenomenon as a "parallel, post-biblical Christianity"? When you stop to look inside these churches, you hear Christian-like things and you see Christian-like activities.
Grant Retief
#60. So when some refer to Starbucks' coffee as an affordable luxury, I think to myself, Maybe so. But more accurate, I like to think, is that the starbucks experience - personal connection- is an affordable necessity. We are all hungry for community.
Howard Schultz
#61. I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.
Nolan Ryan
#62. Then this," Grimm said, "is what I believe professional inquisitors refer to as a clue."
"In my considered judgment as an occasional inquisitor for the Spirearch," Benedict said, "I believe you may be correct.
Jim Butcher
#63. What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.
Ralph Merkle
#64. I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#65. As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.
Mitch Hedberg
#66. Time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.
Deborah Eisenberg
#68. I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.
Jens Lekman
#69. People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man
Lance Armstrong
#70. Well, you can take your cellar of death where you keep all the bodies of the women you've slaughtered over the years and go to hell. Because this target, which you probably refer to as *it' in your head to keep me as merely an object, is not going down without a fight!
Shelly Laurenston
#71. term gains and all short term capital gains are taxable to investors. Please refer to the Taxation - Capital gain for more details.
Jigar Patel
#72. Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. "God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.
Jaggi Vasudev
#74. But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.
Marcel Proust
#75. When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood.
Robin Hobb
#77. Who are you? he asked.
I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.
Eoin Colfer
#78. The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.
Jon Stewart
#79. Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
Joe Baca
#80. Later Protestant writers would refer to this as the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae - the "article by which the church stands or falls.
Alister E. McGrath
#81. The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team.
Joseph Sobran
#82. (Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies" - unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme
Ellen Kushner
#83. I didn't want to prejudge but based on the company he kept, the glistening of his suit, and the poser-like swagger, I somehow suspected that Shiny Suit was what the students today technically refer to as a douchebag.
Harlan Coben
#84. You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!
Alexander Siddig
#85. There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
Franz Kafka
#86. This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.
Abbas Kiarostami
#87. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Thiruvalluvar
#89. Don't Call Us Wahhabis!" The term Wahhabi is actually offensive to Wahhabis themselves, as it suggests that they venerate Wahhab, the prophet, rather than God. Wahhabis refer to their own religious affiliation as Muwahiddin ("Unitarianism").
Edward Trimnell
#90. We're a shifty, sliding population ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.
Barbara Holland
#91. Girls, I think. Why do women refer to themselves as girls? It's so weird
Dawn O'Porter
#92. Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.
Frederick Lenz
#93. When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use).
Paulo Coelho
#94. People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.
Stephen Rea
#95. I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet
Steven Pinker
#96. We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy ... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.
Cybill Shepherd
#97. I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.
Jon Brion
#98. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
Eddie Murphy
#99. We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind's exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will, which people refer to as memory of the heart.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#100. The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61
Tom Wolfe
