Referential Style Quotes & Sayings

Do you have a feel for the guitar? Do you have any idea what this little baby is capable of?" Without waiting for an answer, he climbed up into his chair and began playing "Light My Fire," adding, "This one is for Joan. — David Sedaris

Nothing is ever quite enough. No matter who you are, there's always something more to be had, which could be yours if only you were someone else. — Claire North

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated. — Laozi

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. — Teresa Of Avila

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life. — Mem Fox

They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters. — Lao-Tzu

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. — Charles Horton Cooley

Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive.
G. R. Hawting — Ibn Warraq

One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can. — Kendare Blake

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy. — Roald Dahl

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back. — Greg Norman

From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop. — Wladimir Klitschko