Citation Quotes

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? (Abraham Pais)
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.[citation needed]. View quote
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. View quote
Jack Kemp
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. [citation needed]. View quote
Gilles Deleuze
I dream India of becoming a great economic superpower.[not in citation given]. View quote
Dhirubhai Ambani
Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.[not in citation given]. View quote
Dhirubhai Ambani
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.[citation needed]. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes we waste too much time to think about someone who doesn't even think about us for a second.[citation needed]. View quote
Wiz Khalifa
Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful. [specific citation needed]. View quote
John Lennon
The writer in me distrusts the good citizen, the "intellectual ambassador," the human rights activist - those roles which are mentioned in the citation for this prize, much as I am committed to them. The writer is more skeptical, more self-doubting, than the person who tries to do (and to support) the right thing. View quote
Susan Sontag
We both call in experience to the support of our opinions; but, in your case, the experience is based on vague uncertainties, whilst I, more circumspect, strive never to lose sight of those scientific principles which ought to guide the observer in all his investigations. My aim is not to defend systems, or bolster up theories; I confine myself to the citation of facts, such as society presents to our view. If these facts be legitimately established, it follows that we must accept of and accommodate our reason to them. (Adolphe Quetelet)
In a radio interview with San Antonio station WOAI on December 5, 2005, Dean said, "The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea that, unfortunately, is just plain wrong." [29][citation needed]. View quote
Howard Dean
In a speech given to the American Jewish Committee, Dean said "I was recently asked about the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties," When it comes right down to it, the essential difference is that the Democrats fundamentally believe it is important to make sure that American Jews feel comfortable being American Jews." [30][citation needed]. View quote
Howard Dean
To leave is to die a little, but to die is to leave a lot.[citation needed]. View quote
Alphonse Allais
I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke. [citation needed]. View quote
Hillary Clinton
On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth. [citation needed]. View quote
Hillary Clinton
It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.[citation needed]. View quote
Évariste Galois
Sounds like a party at Elton John's house.[citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
[to Rupert Grint] Look at the great city of LA stretched out in front of you, son: there's dangerous people living in that cardboard backdrop.[specific citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
By the way, _____ was the name of a movie I accidentally watched in a hotel room twenty or thirty times.[citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
[with a fist-shake] Take that, ____.[citation needed]. (Craig Ferguson)
Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.[specific citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Another innocent victim of my pointless rage.[citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
By the way, _____ was a name I used to dance under.[citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Welcome back, my naughty monkeys. [whipcrack][citation needed]. View quote
Craig Ferguson