Alex Berenson

Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and profits. Companies whose financial statements are loaded with footnotes: companies that short-sellers often attack but rarely dent.

American Author

Robert Winston

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

British Scientist

Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

American Clergyman

Margaret Halsey

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Asha Rangappa

If there's one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it's to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there.

American Lawyer

Bill Gates

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

American Businessman

Vladimir Nabokov

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

American Novelist

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

American Educator

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Russian Poet

George Santayana

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Spanish Philosopher

Footnotes provide detailed information without cluttering the main text, often used for citations in academic work.

Academic Clarification

Footnotes always appear at the bottom of the page where the reference is made, not at the end of the document.

Bottom of Page

Footnotes are usually marked by a superscript number following the text they relate to.

Numerical Reference

Describing an event as a 'footnote' implies it is of minor importance or interest in a larger context.

Historical Significance

'Footnote' can be used metaphorically to suggest that something is a minor detail.

Metaphorical Use

Footnoting sources can enhance the credibility of your writing by showing thorough research.

Credibility Tool

In informal writing, like personal letters or short stories, footnoting is not commonly used.

Not Always Required

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 but there's nothing else in the world I'd rather be doing. And as we look ahead I'd like to share with you a It's the thought of a future where the 17 million deaths per year that we currently have due to infectious disease is a historical footnote.

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 for plants, fungus and animals, humans being a footnote; interesting footnote but a footnote nonetheless. This is honestly the most exciting period ever for the study of unknown life forms on our planet. The dominant things that exist here

Why we have virus...

 and Adams thought Jefferson was a much better writer than he was. Second, though Jefferson never used footnotes, or credited his sources, some of his memorable words and phrases were borrowed from other writers and slightly tweaked.

What you might not know...

 should not be forgotten. In bearing witness to their crisis, I felt a small communion with these people. From far away, this war had felt like a footnote in world news. As a witness, the war felt like history unfolding.

Why I risked my life to...

 coauthored with his young colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. Regarded as an odd philosophical footnote well into the 1980s, this EPR paper has recently become central to a new understanding of quantum physics,

Einstein's brilliant...

 Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. One 20th century philosopher even went so far as to describe all of Western philosophy as a series of footnotes to Plato.

Plato’s best (and worst)...

 But I do not want to be a mother who gave birth to poems. I do not want a stanza for a son nor a line for a little girl nor a footnote for a child who doesn't fit into this world.

Black life at the...

 never ever really stopped and thought beyond this glory all we've dreamed wouldn't even be a footnote in your story