Quotes of: Refers Keyword

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Erich Fromm

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

Dane Cook

Cornelius Fudge: [referring to Lord Voldemort] He's back!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: [referring to Dinah] What's this? Macaulay Connor: Idiot, probably.

The Philadelphia Story

[referring to his shotgun] Alonzo Harris: You KNOW I'm surgical with this bitch.

Training Day

Rooster Cogburn: [referring to the defense attorney] Pencil-necked son of a bitch!

True Grit

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Noam Chomsky

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Angela Davis

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

Barbara Billingsley

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

Clan Rathskeller

...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..

A Familiar Rain

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Emily Greene Balch

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Shepard Fairey

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Richard the Third

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Irwin Redlener

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Mason Cooley

Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

Orlando Bloom