Famous quotes containing the word refer:
“When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“The members of a body-politic call it the state when it is passive, the sovereign when it is active, and a power when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title people, and they refer to one another individually as citizens when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as subjects when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778)
“I cant talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and its a horror to look back on. I cant imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldnt even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)