Quotation Quotes

138 quotes by 92 authors

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been… — Martin Gardner
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation — Willard Van Orman Quine
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses — Bill Walsh
I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes… — Jerry Pournelle
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did… — Tahereh Mafi
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks… — Arthur Miller
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation… — Nigel Rees
Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (â€œLesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), Iâ€™ve always stolen from the people I admire â€“ not plagiarized, mind you,… — Austin Kleon
There is no way you can use the word â€œrealityâ€ without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag
Quotation confesses inferiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote… — Umberto Eco
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. — Saint Augustine
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks… — Bent Larsen
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque… — Thomas Jefferson
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly… — Robert Wise

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