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Letter "F" » footnotes
«All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.»
«A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Epitaphs and epigrams
| Keywords:
accuracy, epigram, footnote, footnotes, nimbleness
«He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.»
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
| Keywords:
finer, footnote, footnotes, hold fast, paragraphing, paragraphs, suckered, surfaces, testicular, The Library, wider
«History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes»
«[It is] voyeurism embellished with footnotes.»
«A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
characterization, European, footnote, footnotes, philosophical, Plato, safest, The European, tradition
«Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
Camelot, footnote, footnotes, island, kindly, mists, offshore, The Mist
«Footnotes - little dogs yapping at the heels of the text»
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