Quotes about Quotations

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. Votes: 5

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. Votes: 4

Quotations calcify into clichés. Votes: 3

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble. Votes: 3

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Votes: 3

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. Votes: 3

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them. Votes: 3

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. Votes: 3

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Votes: 3

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. Votes: 3

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. Votes: 3

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Votes: 3

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. Votes: 3

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Votes: 3

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Votes: 3

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. Votes: 3

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. Votes: 3

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. Votes: 3

Success will not come when you read success Quotations .It won't leave once you inspired and apply it. Votes: 3

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. Votes: 3

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. Votes: 3

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. 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

Always verify quotations! Votes: 2

Life itself is a quotation. Votes: 2

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. Votes: 2

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. Votes: 2

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Votes: 2

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. Votes: 2

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. Votes: 2

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Votes: 2

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Votes: 2

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Votes: 2

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. Votes: 2

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Votes: 2

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Votes: 2

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. Votes: 2

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Votes: 2

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Votes: 2

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. Votes: 2

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life. Votes: 1

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Votes: 1

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Votes: 1

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. Votes: 1

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. Votes: 1

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Votes: 1

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. Votes: 1

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. Votes: 1

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. Votes: 1

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. Votes: 1

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. Votes: 1

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. Votes: 1

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Votes: 1

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. 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

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Votes: 1

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. Votes: 1

We are ruled by quotations. Votes: 0

My skull is crammed with quotations. Votes: 0

I surround myself with inspirational quotations. Votes: 0

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations. Votes: 0

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. Votes: 0

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. Votes: 0

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. Votes: 0

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. Votes: 0

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism Votes: 0

...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler... Votes: 0

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns! Votes: 0

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. Votes: 0

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it. Votes: 0

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. Votes: 0

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. Votes: 0

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Votes: 0

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. Votes: 0

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

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. Votes: 0

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. Votes: 0

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. Votes: 0

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. Votes: 0

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. Votes: 0

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. Votes: 0

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people. Votes: 0

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. Votes: 0

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated. Votes: 0

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s. Votes: 0

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. Votes: 0

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. Votes: 0

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon. Votes: 0

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. Votes: 0

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. Votes: 0

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One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.' Votes: 0

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. Votes: 0

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Votes: 0

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.] 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

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament. Votes: 0

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation Votes: 0

Looking for a cricket quote for inspiration? Or, maybe a cricket quote to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotations. Votes: 0

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations. Votes: 0

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource. Votes: 0

It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums. Votes: 0

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations. Votes: 0

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists. Votes: 0

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. Votes: 0

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. Votes: 0

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. Votes: 0

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything. Votes: 0

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations. Votes: 0

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. Votes: 0

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged. Votes: 0

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books... Votes: 0

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. Votes: 0

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words. Votes: 0

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature. Votes: 0

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard. 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 surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career. Votes: 0

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment. Votes: 0

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then. Votes: 0

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then. Votes: 0

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience. Votes: 0

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.... Votes: 0