Footnote And Endnote Quotes & Sayings

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. — Lewis Carroll

I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of a 767 with two dead piolets and afew hundred passengers in the cabin behind me, I would absolutely be able to land the ninety-thousand-pound jet. — Augusten Burroughs

Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much. — Lleyton Hewitt

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy. — Eric Edmeades

Gaining visibility is just the process of being SEEN so that you can connect with others. — Kim Beasley

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me! — Thomas Carlyle

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia. — Sam Harris

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody. — Brendan O'Carroll

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge. — Robert K. Merton

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done. — Walter Isaacson

If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare. — Ursula Vernon

Joy always came after pain. — Guillaume Apollinaire