Quotes of Footnote - somelinesforyou

“ All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. ”

- George Santayana

“ Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. ”

- William James

“ Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. ”

- Nicholson Baker

“ A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ 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. ”

- Margaret Halsey
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