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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.
Favorite Quote: The left single-quote
Life itself is a quotation.
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Don't quote me on that
There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.
If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.
Don't quote me on this.Quote-- Dan Mcgirt
A good quotation must be like a beautiful door opening to a beautiful place!
Quotations
always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Quotes? you want quotes?
To sound important, quote yourself
Don't fucking quote me!
Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
Why would I quote myself?Quote-- Kevin Cole
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
You can quote me, but I'll tell everyone that you're lying.
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
I leave quoting me to my friends
Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.
I've never said anything in my life worth quoting
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
One quotation can change a person's life.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
The greater part of our writers, ... have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
[An example of misattribution:]
If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.
- Mark Twain
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Quotation confesses inferiority.
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.
A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.
Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.
To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion,
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
I don't like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
It didn't matter what you said as long as you were quoted.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me !
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
Minds of people need a good revolution and great quotations are good revolutionists!
Silence too, can be misquoted
I refuse to wait until my demise to be quoted!!!"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.
You can quote me on this.
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own ... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
Quotes are treasure!
Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
You suckers do realize that anyone can add a quote, right?
This is a dumb quote.
Labor is a man crowning glory."
"Not this man's."
"I quote Marx"
I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough.
"I quote blisters.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Random quotes don't constitute an argument.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
My first cool quote
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
Please don't quote me.Quote-- Mike Piazza
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
This is how you edit a quote
To quote or not to quote that is syntactically correct
I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.
God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.
OMG! I don't have a quote?! Ummm... Now I do! Quote this. :D
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
I reminded you I studied literature, didn't I? I've had an endless supply of quotations at my disposal, but they had always highlighted the inadequacy of my life rather than providing an uplifting literary score to it.
Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.