Footnotes Quotations

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Novelists never have to footnote.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.