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PAUL ELDRIDGE History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes PAUL ELDRIDGE To me it will be one more of those esoteric statistics, one more of those historic footnotes that ma... SANDY ALDERSON Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. VLADIMIR NABOKOV There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There ... TERRY PRATCHETT We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes. ADA PALMER It seems like such a waste of energy to be fighting over something like this. JOE SULLIVAN Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece VLADIMIR NABOKOV He’s a book full of footnotes brought to life. He’s a jacket made of elbow patches. RAINBOW ROWELL The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a... ALFRED WHITEHEAD The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The timing smells. It seems like more than coincidence. When something like this happens it makes pe... LAURIE LEVENSON Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider... NICHOLSON BAKER It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example ... MARY ROACH As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters ... SCOTT HAWKINS It seems like every time we come up with something good to raise money, everybody all over the count... JANE WILSON That was nine years ago and sometimes it seems like yesterday. We were so close. DEBBIE WEBB My perception of time has improved. Now when someone goes on and on explaining something stupid to m... JAIRO FERNáNDEZ I have a lot of respect for Barry and what he does. I wish something like this didn't come up. JASON CHRISTIANSEN theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body KEN M If you look into the footnotes of the business model for Apple Computer you'll see that they actuall... CHRISTIAN LANDER Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. MAURICE GIBB All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, t... HENRY LOUIS GATES I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves some... MATTIA CALDARA We see the market as about 50 per cent IP, moving steadily to more than 100 per cent over the next f... DONALD PETERSON This is just as much fun as playing in the water. It seems like there is a lot of bickering going on... GARY ROSS It just seemed like there were more questions this time. It was just simply a reinforcement of what ... JOHN O'CONNOR It was more than I ever thought I would see, and I just assume never see something like that again. MARK SUDDUTH When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently wri... ALISON WEIR This is our first time out. This is much more like Kitty Hawk than Kennedy. MARC SCHWAGER Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative... CRISS JAMI The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. 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