#reference

What are you?” he demanded. “A slayer?" I rolled my eyes. “The name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond cheerleader with questionable taste in men? ↗

— Parker Blue

#tv-reference #funny

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

— Fanny Brice

#beauty #greater #letter #personal #recommendation

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#intended #man #principles #provide #reference

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

— Allen Ginsberg

#catholic church #church #kitsch #moral #private

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#continue #exist #how #learn #less

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players. ↗

— David Moranis

#basketball #basketball team #coach #due #high

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. ↗

— Themistocles

#i #likely #man #money #preference

I started thinking more about music. I thought I'd accepted the fact that, as part of "Being Gretchen," I didn't really like music, but in fact, the truth was slightly different: I thought I didn't like music, but in fact, I didn't approve of my own taste--I wished I liked sophisticated music, like jazz or classical or esoteric rock. Instead, my taste ran mostly to what might play on a lite FM station. Oh, well. Be Gretchen. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#preferences #taste #music

When you’re married, you’re privy to the misunderstanding. When you’re not married, it’s overrated.” I try to smile. “You rush in, headlong, full of dreams and wishes, so far removed from reality that you never even realize you’ve married into a family and the Navy. One refers to you as the girl from L.A., and the other refers to you as the dependent spouse. ↗

— Katherine Owen

#dreams