We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real…

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

— Joseph Stalin

I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would…

— Carrie Underwood

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

— William Safire

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

— James Joyce

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Edward Abbey

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation…

— Bent Larsen

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer…

— Jennifer Egan

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

— Joseph Campbell

For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because…

— Sergio Chejfec

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we…

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Paul Eldridge

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

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 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