Best Quoted Quotes

132 Quoted quotes by 120 unique authors

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg
Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies:… — Unknown Author
The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue. — Leon Morris
I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. — Stanley Kubrick
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to… — William Shenstone
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger,… — Hank Haney
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is… — John N. Bahcall
When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. — Laurence J. Peter
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original… — Isaac D'Israeli
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the… — Alexander Smith
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone… — Johannes Rau
I've quoted Lost in America several times. — Robin Tunney
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. — Leslie Charteris
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. — Ben Elton
I don't even like being quoted in a press release. — Marco Arment
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself. — Larry Wall
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger… — Robert M. Gates
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. — Todd Gitlin
I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. — Mary Docter

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