Quotation Quotes
138 quotes by 92 authors
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
— James A. Baldwin
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Life itself is a quotation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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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
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
— A A Milne
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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
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The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
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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
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Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.
— Eric Partridge
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.â€'
— William Safire
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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
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Human success is a quotation from overhead.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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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
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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
Who Wrote These Quotation Quotes
92 authors contributed a total of 138 Quotation Quotes, led by these top contributors: