Footnotes Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
— William James
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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
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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
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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
— Thomas Sowell
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The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
— Anthony Shadid
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But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or…
— Lisa See
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Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
— Hal Borland
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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
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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
— Paul Eldridge
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
— Martha Gellhorn
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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
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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
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For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I…
— Bobby Fischer
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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.
— Woody Allen
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Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.
— Robert Breault
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The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Who Wrote These Footnotes Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 46 Footnotes Quotes, led by these top contributors: