Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life itself is a quotation.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn't come from an organic place.
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.
The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.