Quotes About Quotations

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

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People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.