Footnotes Quotes

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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying… — Ted Nelson
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in… — Zadie Smith
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker
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
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways… — Noam Chomsky
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. — Theodore White
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. — Henry Louis Gates
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
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. — Vladimir Nabokov
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The… — George Santayana
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
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love. — Noel Coward
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: â€œIt was the… — Joanna Russ
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman… — Lisa Kleypas
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
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a… — Vladimir Nabokov

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