Quotation Quotes

138 quotes by 92 authors

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist… — Matt Ghaffari
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A A Milne
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — J. H. Hexter
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. — Samuel Johnson
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. — Marjorie Garber
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
Avoid overuse of 'quotation â€œmarks.â€' — William Safire
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran
Human success is a quotation from overhead. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats… — Bill Gates
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty

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