We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

- Darren Criss

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

- Martin Gore

I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

- Mads Mikkelsen

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

- James Gleick

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

- Josh Dun

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

- Jill Lepore

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

- Italo Calvino

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Howie Mandel

I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

- Emma Roberts

Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

- Clarke Peters

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

- Constance Baker Motley

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

- Catherine Tate

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

- Catherine Tate

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

- Colin Firth

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

- Bruce Glover

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

- A. P. Herbert

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

- Aristotle

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

- Allen Ginsberg