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It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation. — Robert Benchley

[spurious quotation]. — Joseph Stalin

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. — James Boswell

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving ... — William Francis Henry King

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. — Philip Pullman

How saying is saying if its already said. — Vikrmn

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. — Janet Malcolm

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. — Louis Menand

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love. — Peter James

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. — Ayn Rand

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. — Catherine Brady

Is the murk which lives inside me,
actually a dead star? — Sameer Khan

Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. — Andrew Marr

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full words. — Michelle Hodkin

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. — Socrates

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — Dorothy L. Sayers

A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation. — Seneca.

It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation. — Hilary Mantel

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! — Anna Garlin Spencer

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. — Daniel Kahneman

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. — Mason Cooley

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation — Willard Van Orman Quine

Quotation confesses inferiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations. — Jorge Luis Borges

Quotation lovers love rare words. — Willis Regier

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it's good to lose something/someone. Because we get what we deserve, not what we desire for. — M.H. Rakib

Quotations introduced by that are regarded as in indirect discourse and not enclosed in quotation marks. — William Strunk Jr.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. — George Orwell

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure. — Ana Monnar

I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained — Thabiso Monkoe

Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions. — Vicki Pettersson

I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words. — Michelle Hodkin

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success? — Ana Monnar

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ... — Thomas Browne

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson

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In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. — Mason Cooley

Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun. — Alan Lindsay

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. — Brendan Behan

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. — Charles Edward Montague

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. — Bernard Darwin

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it. — Samuel Johnson

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne

Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed, the Duke said. — Anonymous

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. — Samuel Johnson

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. — Rachael Ray

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey

In the end is my beginning ... That's a quotation I've often heard people say. — Agatha Christie

To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion, — Saki

And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one. — Robert Aickman

Your vibe creates your tribe. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. — Isaac D'Israeli

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. — Bill Walsh

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. — Bernard Malamud

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. — Richard P. Feynman

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. — Evelyn Waugh

I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote? — Man Martin

They were curved together like quotation marks with no words in between. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. — Mary McCarthy

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers

When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. — Joseph Roux

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. — Eusebius Clay

I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' — William Safire

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather — Willa Cather

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs. — Adriano Bulla

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. — Masha Tupitsyn

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs — Jerome Stern

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The origin of the name is an enigmatic quotation from James Joyce: "Three quarks for Muster Mark! — Stephen Hawking

Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year! — Mehmet Murat Ildan