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In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book
I like to quote things.
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.
This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other
link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from "Six Feet Under." He didn't really like to have too many pop culture references because they don't really hold up after a few years.
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.
You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Quotes? you want quotes?
To sound important, quote yourself
This chapter explains ba bla bla
I keep coming back to certain books, and you - to try to find myself again
With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
You came from a source.Source-- Wayne Dyer
Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . Orientalism
It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.
The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.
In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.
What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you.
made some references to these sources within this book, What She Knew is entirely a work of fiction and all quotes and references are used fictitiously.
Bibliomancy: Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.
There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.
Authors are monkeys who mean
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
There were books involved.
Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
I am deeply indebted to many people who have shared their love of and insights into these remarkable books with me over the years, none more than Jessica Matthews of George Mason University.
When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.
It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.
I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.
But then, do we know what references we still hold on?
Attribution is power.
In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12
We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
Why would I quote myself?Quote-- Kevin Cole
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.
Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.
When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
Books always speak of other books.
This is a work of memory
facts have been altered. Names have been changed.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
The critical image ... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
They really need to cite their sources, you think to yourself, which would make your seventh-grade science teacher proud if only he knew.
It's a moot point, however.
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You're not going to last a week around here if you can't keep up with the pop culture references. How about Lord of the Rings? Firefly? Doctor Horrible? No? Clearly we have a lot of work to do.
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.
Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
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M. Myriel
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.
Volume I Chapter I Introductory
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects.
I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.
Quotations introduced by that are regarded as in indirect discourse and not enclosed in quotation marks.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Writing is bibliophile heroin.
It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.