Quotes on Quotations

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

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.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.