#reference

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. ↗

— Colin Firth

#actually #become #delighted #find #i

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

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#common #common sense #congress #day #debate

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#common #interpret #language #mankind #means

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#color #i #i think #many #people

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference. ↗

— Harlan Howard

#collecting #emotions #future #i #reference

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#inclusion #judgment #national #national security #obama

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

— Allen Ginsberg

#catholic church #church #kitsch #moral #private

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#day #front #preference #someone #sticks