#referring

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#dad #keeps #me #piano #playing

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#forget #golden #greatness #history #march

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#advantage #appearance #appears #because #chances

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#becomes #ceases #eventually #first #genre

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#i #now #open-ended #press #referring

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#divorced #find #forget #got #i

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US? ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#economic #globalization #influence #might #military

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring

It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#breakout #called #even #friends #head