Footnote Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

• We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
• The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and… — Danny DeVito
• A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is… — David Fincher
• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains… — Erich Fromm
• On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new… — Richard E. Berendzen
• Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. — Hal Borland
• The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
• I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life. — Martha Gellhorn
• This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for… — Mark Twain
• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love… — Trent Reznor
• All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen
• Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far. — Robert Breault
• Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
• If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a… — Mike Huckabee
• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do,… — Terry Pratchett
• Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as… — David Foster Wallace
• Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. — China Mieville
• If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history. — Justina Chen
• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory… — Margaret Thatcher

Who Wrote These Footnote Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Footnote Quotes as follows:

• 2 Footnote Quotes by Margaret Thatcher
• 1 Footnote Quote by Margaret Halsey
• 1 Footnote Quote by Stephen Lewis
• 1 Footnote Quote by John Andrew Holmes
• 1 Footnote Quote by JOHNREYES
• 1 Footnote Quote by Robert K. Merton
• 1 Footnote Quote by Danny DeVito
• 1 Footnote Quote by David Fincher
• 1 Footnote Quote by Erich Fromm
• 1 Footnote Quote by Richard E. Berendzen
• 1 Footnote Quote by Hal Borland
• 1 Footnote Quote by Gertrude Himmelfarb
• 1 Footnote Quote by Martha Gellhorn
• 1 Footnote Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Footnote Quote by Trent Reznor
• 1 Footnote Quote by Woody Allen
• 1 Footnote Quote by Robert Breault
• 1 Footnote Quote by Alfonso X of Castile
• 1 Footnote Quote by Mike Huckabee
• 1 Footnote Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• 1 Footnote Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Footnote Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Footnote Quote by China Mieville
• 1 Footnote Quote by Justina Chen
• 1 Footnote Quote by George Santayana