One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
“I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
“James O. Incandenza - A Filmography The following listing is as complete as we can make it. Because the twelve years of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter,… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
