Footnote Quotes

Thorpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in its first class. My grandfather was a footnote. Until today. - Jim Thorpe

This is something that happens once every 30 years... It's an unusual situation. Would it be better if we were one of the other four teams in the division at the end of the year? I don't think so. I'd rather be a footnote to history than not in history at all. - Sandy Alderson

There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history. - Jim Osborn

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. - Danny DeVito

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. - Alfred North Whitehead

The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print... The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes. - Stephen Ambrose

That's just a footnote. Losing the tie is the history. If I was worried about it, I wouldn't have taken the risk and played. - Martina Navratilova

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. - Barry Diller

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms. - Ted Nelson