#reference

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#i #i do #life #point #reference

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#benchmark #common #discussion #evolution #fossils

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#favor #governmental #i #preferences #still

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. ↗

— Patti Smith

#does #fact #feel #freedom #i

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#book #christianity #clergyman #converted #did

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#day #fulfilled #great #only #promise

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#less #minorities #minority #people #reference

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#cannot #force #future #guide #knowledge

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

Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence--that ensured that the guilty would be punished while the innocent would be set free. This faith had collapsed in the face of recent events and had been replaced by the suspicion that he would spend the rest of his life pleading his innocence to a variety of implacable judges and tormenters, many of whom would look like Daisy, and that he would in all probability wake up in cell six the next morning to find that he had been transformed into an enormous cockroach. He had definitely been transported to the kind of maleficent universe that transformed people into cockroaches. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#justice #wrongfully-accused #faith