Reference Desk

Famous quotes containing the words reference and/or desk:

    “Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “We must rest here, for this is where the teacher comes.
    On his desk stands a vase of tears.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)