An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings. — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them.” — Justin Taylor Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“It´s interesting to see people who are bad at quoting somebody, but very good at gossiping.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking -… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“I’ll try. That which does not kill us makes us stronger, right?” “You’re quoting Kelly Clarkson?” “No, Nietzsche,” Harper replied with a… — Scarlett Cole Copy Share Image
“I am making a correction to one of the quotes you guys have for Sly Stallone; It's not ethical to put "… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“A transcription doesn’t so much repeat words as contextualize and historicize them, uniting them with the time, place, and source of their… — William Flesch Copy Share Image
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious… — Yossi Klein Halevi Copy Share Image
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
