I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation…

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

— Jonathan Swift

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

— William Safire

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…

— Rachael Ray

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

— Mason Cooley

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

— Rudy Rucker

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

— Courteney Cox

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Joseph Stalin

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in…

— Carrie Underwood

“You’re saying your mother engaged in unprotected sex outside her primary relationship?’ ‘With some other student,’ replied Rosie. ‘While she was dating my’ –…

— Graeme Simsion

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in…

— Anonymous

“I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room…

— Michelle Hodkin

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

— Catherine Brady

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

— Paul Eldridge