Paraphrase Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paraphrase Quotations
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly… — Walter Koenig Copy Share Image
The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
