Quotes about Quotation

Quotation confesses inferiority. Votes: 3

Quotation lovers love rare words. Votes: 3

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! Votes: 3

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. Votes: 3

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. Votes: 3

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. Votes: 3

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. Votes: 3

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Votes: 3

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. Votes: 3

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. Votes: 3

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it. Votes: 3

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... Votes: 3

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you. Votes: 3

Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation. Votes: 3

On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's. Votes: 3

Life itself is a quotation. Votes: 1

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Votes: 1

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. Votes: 1

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. Votes: 1

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Votes: 1

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Votes: 1

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. Votes: 1

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. Votes: 1

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. Votes: 1

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Votes: 1

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. Votes: 1

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Votes: 1

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! Votes: 1

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Votes: 1

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Votes: 1

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' Votes: 0

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation Votes: 0

Human success is a quotation from overhead. Votes: 0

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. Votes: 0

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning. Votes: 0

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses Votes: 0

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Votes: 0

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. Votes: 0

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. Votes: 0

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. Votes: 0

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. Votes: 0

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art. Votes: 0

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. Votes: 0

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... Votes: 0

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. Votes: 0

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. Votes: 0

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction! Votes: 0

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. Votes: 0

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. Votes: 0

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. Votes: 0

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. Votes: 0

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it. Votes: 0

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. Votes: 0

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation. Votes: 0

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. Votes: 0

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. Votes: 0

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. Votes: 0

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. Votes: 0

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. Votes: 0

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain Votes: 0

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs Votes: 0

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. Votes: 0

You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. Votes: 0

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. Votes: 0

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. Votes: 0

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous! Votes: 0

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. Votes: 0

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. Votes: 0

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. Votes: 0

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. Votes: 0

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. Votes: 0

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. Votes: 0

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 0

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment. Votes: 0

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Votes: 0

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. Votes: 0

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. Votes: 0

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. Votes: 0

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. Votes: 0

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. Votes: 0

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory. Votes: 0

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. Votes: 0

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose. Votes: 0

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. Votes: 0

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know. Votes: 0

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. Votes: 0

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"? Votes: 0

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. Votes: 0

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather Votes: 0

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. Votes: 0

The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) Votes: 0

Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who's bigger, who's smarter, who's best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame. Votes: 0

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. Votes: 0

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from. Votes: 0

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. Votes: 0

you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started. Votes: 0

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. Votes: 0