Referencing In Quotes

#1. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

Cory Doctorow

#2. Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then ... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Michael Patrick King

#3. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands.

Simon Pegg

#5. I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10.

Joss Whedon

#6. In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

Philip Schuyler

#7. A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

Brian Chippendale

#8. That's what I Am a Strange Loop is about," said Deborah. "It's about how we spend our lives self-referencing, over and over, in a kind of strange loop.

Jon Ronson

#9. Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

Samantha Harvey

#10. My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

Tavis Smiley

#11. Jessica Jones is its own animal, I think each one of these series is its own animal. There is some connective tissue, in terms of referencing the Marvel Universe, but it glances off of the other stories.

Melissa Rosenberg

#12. Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside

Joni Eareckson Tada

#13. I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

Ryan Hemsworth

#14. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

#15. I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

Bill Frisell

#16. When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.

Brennan Manning

#17. Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo ... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

Brad Goreski

#18. How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

Sanjaya Malakar

#19. With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Marlon Wayans

#20. With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.

Paul Lansky

#21. His tremendous struggles caused such a commotion that our position could only be compared to that of men shooting Niagara in a cylinder at night.

Frank T. Bullen

#22. I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details.

E.L. Sayers