Anthology Quote by Gary Saul Morson Download Open image “An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.” — Gary Saul Morson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthology Museums Quotations Utterance
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
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… — Jerry Pournelle 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 utterance. A… — William Flesch Copy Share Image
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
“Quotes are little packages of knowledge shared from others who have walked the path before, during and after us. They inspire, teach, encourage, inform… — Kelly McNelis Senegor Copy Share Image
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Like a delicatessen owner who sells rancid meat and then blames his business failure on the vulgarization of customer taste, humanities professors account for… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but… — Lorin Stein Copy Share
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
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