Footnotes Quotes

46 quotes by 45 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
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text — William James
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
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
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotesâ€”when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid
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
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
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. — Paul Eldridge
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
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
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far. — Robert Breault
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick

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