Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations…

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Gary Saul Morson

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to…

— Gary Saul Morson

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

— Gary Saul Morson

Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that…

— Gary Saul Morson

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…

— Terence McKenna

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

— Alan Watts

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

— Fernand Braudel

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust…

— Eric Clapton

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,…

— Luther Standing Bear

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would…

— Rick Perlstein

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

— Black Elk

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

— Terry Eagleton