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  • Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

    Dog   Writing   Littles  
  • 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 tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.

    Book   August   Years  
  • For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

    Mad   Needs   Half  
  • 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 footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

  • According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.

    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

    Sex   Eye   Hummingbirds  
    "The Hummingbird". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.
  • Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

    Writing   Lions   Necks  
    "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.
  • The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

    Jobs   Ideas   Come Up  
  • The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

  • Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

  • One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

    Jesus   America   One Day  
  • [Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

    Males   Events   Female  
    "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.
  • 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 of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.

    Book   Taken   Science  
    Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)
  • Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

  • A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think, "Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire". These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.

    Running   Males   Female  
    Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”
  • Of all the facts I daily live with, there's none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it's a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.

    Dark   Two   Light  
  • For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

  • If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

    Queens   Book   Fate  
  • All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

    Mean   Ideas   Literature  
    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

    Wise   People   Judging  
  • 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 a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

    Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press
  • Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's like Picasso, it's like Mondrian - it's not. Art's supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn't really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.

    Art   Thinking   World  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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 vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

    Life Is   Obscure   Poet  
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Pale fire”, Berkley
  • 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 the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

    Book   Looks   Maps  
  • 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 world is one of those books.

    George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”
  • We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

    "The Common Viper". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.
  • Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

  • Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

    Change   Time   Memories  
    1979 General election campaign speech, Bolton, 2 May.
  • Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

    Looks   Use   Maps  
    Source: therumpus.net
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