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
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac D'Israeli
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
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.
Lawrence Halprin
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young
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.
Marlene Dietrich
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
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.
Nigel Rees
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
