#reference

Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#television

I was going to watch Project Runway," said Jace. "It's on next." "No, you're not," said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of smoke as the picture died. "You need to deal with this." "Suddenly you're interested in solving my problems?" "I'm interested in getting my apartment back. I'm tired of you cleaning all the time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #tv-reference #television

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#hunger #hungry #main-course #preference #inspirational

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

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

#christian world #condition #epistles #new #new testament

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#drunk #i #look #mom #never

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! But what of those things which you actually didn't like, not because you were not supposed to like them, not because to dislike them was considered a mark of refinement and education - but because you actually found them distasteful? The very idea annoyed me. How could you know? It involved a problem of choice. I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple ... ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#choice #preferences #attitude

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

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100! ↗

— Lauren Graham

#i #know #oh #references #shot

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' ↗

— Matt Groening

#because #education #frame #get #head