Referencial Quotes

#1. Of course, there were other sorts of literature
theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical
but they were just dry wanks.

Julian Barnes

#2. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Douglas Adams

#3. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Mary Lee Settle

#4. Never send a harpy on a mission of diplomacy.

Thea Harrison

#5. I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

Jack Gleeson

#6. When the gold was half-melted and starting to run, Drogo reached into the flames, snatched out the pot. "Crown!" he roared. "Here. A crown for Cart King!" And upended the pot over the head of the man who had been her brother.

George R R Martin

#7. Darwin was constantly rereading his notes, discovering new implications.

Steven Johnson

#8. People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

Perry Como

#9. All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.

Zendaya

#10. Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.

Vasilios Karpos

#11. I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

Muhammad Ali