There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal” — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered:… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well. — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
“Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote:… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
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