Quotations Quotes - Page 13

• We are ruled by quotations.

  Susan Sontag

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Different, Lists

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Twilight, Giving

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• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  Walter Kirn

  Book, Memorable, Popcorn

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• Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Flower, Book, Illustration

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• My skull is crammed with quotations.

  Susan Sontag

  Skulls

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Recycling, Procedures

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Liberty, Sake

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Community, Good Things

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• I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would drive me crazy is - I took ethics classes in college - and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, College, Class

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

  John Grisham

  Writing, Let Me

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Educational, Writing, Broken

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• A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Waterfalls, Feels

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• Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

  Guy Debord

  Ignorance, Belief, Periods

  Panegyric pt. 1 (1989)

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• Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

  Jennifer Egan

  Stars, Real, Book

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.262, Anchor

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• I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Punctuation, Ends

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.252, St. Martin's Press

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• Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

  John Wyndham

  Said, Of Context

  John Wyndham (2008). “The Midwich Cuckoos”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Willa Cather

  People, Answers, Easy

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• I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

  Loretta Young

  Life

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
  [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Names

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• Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

  Martin Gardner

  Quotation Marks, Want, Chips

  Martin Gardner (2006). “Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight”, MAA

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• I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

  Bill Walsh

  Caution

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• I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Age, Mcr, Program

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

  Aaron Koblin

  Technology, Interesting, Long

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