“ In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them. ”
- John Selden- Copy
- 190
“ You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. ”
- Fritz Mondale- Copy
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“ We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority… though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology… ”
- Ihab Hassan- Copy
- 434
“ Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke.". ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Shakespeare was a dramatist of notewho lived by writing things to quote. ”
- H. C. Bunner- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote. ”
- H. C. Bunner- Copy
- 89
“ There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ”
- Bo Bennett- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action. ”
- S. I. Hayakawa- Copy
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“ The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
- 911
“ Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
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“ My approach to life can't be summed up in a pithy quote, and if yours can, you're in trouble. ”
- Mark Rogers- Copy
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“ I've never wanted to be the flavour of the month. I'd rather be known as a sincere professional. It's never been important for me to be newsmaker or a dial-a quote wonder. That's not my deal at all. ”
- Aishwarya Rai- Copy
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“ Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara… are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. ”
- Saul Alinsky- Copy
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“ The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ”
- Michael Lewis- Copy
- 112
“ Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. ”
- Charles A. Jaffe- Copy
- 397
“ Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? ”
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my Theorem. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
- 581
“ Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me. There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work. ”
- Seth Green- Copy
- 442
“ Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. ”
- Will Ferrell- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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