#reference

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ↗

— Aristotle

#any #greater #letter #personal #recommendation

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#books #could #explain #had #knew

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

#cincinnati #doubt #free #i #i do

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#again #became #convincing #descent #design

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#game #just #literary #references

My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#digital #film #french #i #main

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #tv-reference #humor

Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works. Fate Succumbs ↗

— Tammy Blackwell

#funny-quotes #funny

BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#preferences #reading #richelle #richelle-goodrich #writing

For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly, whether or not we deem them deserving. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dislikes #kindness #likes #personalities #preferences