Quotes of: References Keyword

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.

June Singer

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

John Clute

How often are we reminded that what matters in life can't be quantified (I'm referring to the annual per capita frequency, to two decimals).

John Alejandro King

McCoy: [reference to the turbolift] Who's been holding up the damn elevator?

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Joseph Butler

Dante Hicks: We need to talk. Becky: [referring to the donkey] Did you see the size of that cock?

Clerks II

Jessie Stevens: [referring to John] Handsome. I wouldn't mind buying *that* for you.

To Catch a Thief

Fritz: They're using artillery on us! Hans Gruber: You idiot, it's not the police. It's *him*! [referring to McClane]

Die Hard

Madame de Rosemonde: [referring to the Vicomte de Valmont] What is true of most men is doubly so of him.

Dangerous Liaisons

Rita: Where were you? Phil: [referring to Ned] It was awful. A giant leech got me.

Groundhog Day

[referring to police outside a pool hall] Cheese: Get that sausage off my lawn.

Gone Baby Gone

Léon: [referring to his plant] It's my best friend. Always happy. No questions.

Léon: The Professional

Minister Dormandy: [referring to Radio Rock] We have their testicles in our hands, Twatt, and it feels good.

Pirate Radio

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

Paul Watzlawick

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Diane Wakoski

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Esther Hicks

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen

Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

Saina Nehwal

Detective Trupo: [Referring to Lucas] We need to keep this cash cow alive.

American Gangster

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Allen Ginsberg