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Quotation Quotes

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

Fool Man Brainy Quotation Hand Wit

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.

Help Quotation Two Single Degree

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Quotation Ancestors Every Man

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life Quotation Itself

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

World Quotation Dying Vice Come

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Book Stone House Quotation Out

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking Quotation Always Everything

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

Charles Edward Montague

Great Spring You Quotation Read

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.

Dog Bed Quotation Little Middle

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

Great Quotation Hard Quote Fact

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.

Looking Camera You House Quotation

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Beginning Ending Quotation Against

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.

Story Think Long Page Quotation Up

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

Anna Garlin Spencer

Woman Man Brain Forget Quotation He

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.

Love Hope Book New Quotation Will

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

Men World Quotation Over Literary

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Words Quotation Act Repeating

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Light Quotation Over Lamp Whole Apt

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Live Habit Stop Quotation Living

The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

You Quotation Never Human Always

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.

Bible Reading Quotation Imagery Fact

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli

Wisdom Experience Wise Quotation May

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.

Process You Quotation See Out Here

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

Thought Quotation Way Fidelity His

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