They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Alissa Quart
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
Andrew Marr
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer
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.
Arthur Miller
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
Ben Shapiro
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Bill F. Walsh
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
I improve on misquotation.
Cary Grant
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
E. L. Doctorow
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 dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
Life itself is a quotation.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.
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.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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.
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.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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.
