Words matter. These are the best Quotation Quotes from famous people such as Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Walter Kirn, Evelyn Waugh, E. L. Doctorow, George Eliot, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons – I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn’t come from an organic place.
A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages – and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
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 tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
The idea of ‘climate’ – in quotation marks – is never going to be the issue. It’s always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put ‘climate’ on the ballot, that’s never going to move the needle.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.
I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book – it is a plaything.
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote – or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind–the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Life itself is a quotation.
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
My job involves searching for ‘lost’ quotations – that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone’s mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
