"The attribution of a speaker is in fact……" — Gary Saul Morson
"The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them."
—
Gary Saul Morson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
11 Quotes by Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson has 11 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial…
-
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
-
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
-
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
-
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as…
-
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like…
-
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes…
-
An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
-
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres.…
-
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
See all 11 quotes by Gary Saul Morson »
More Attribution Quotes
This quote is filed under Attribution Quotes,
one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
-
[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic…
— Unknown Author
-
Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which…
— Unknown Author
-
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas,…
— Lloyd Grove
-
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or…
— Esther Dyson
-
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to…
— Rudolf Arnheim
-
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I…
— John Bartlett
-
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that…
— George Steiner
-
Attribution is power.
— Jeff Rich
See all 11 Attribution Quotes »