Quotations Quotes - Page 5

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse

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• Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

  Ayn Rand

  Headlines, Entity, Clear

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.191, Penguin

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• Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rivers, World, Shapes

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• Proverbs are potted wisdom.

  Charles Buxton

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Dying, Vices

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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• A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

  Channing Tatum

  Choices, Taste, Excellent

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• 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

  Jobs, Mind, Wish

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• Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Speech, Currents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Betrayal, Prejudice, Insult

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Taken, Investing, Ignored

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

  James Boswell

  Different, Three, May

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• I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Way, Another Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Рипол Классик

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• A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Art, Mind, Cups

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.100, Rajpal & Sons

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• There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

  Justin Kaplan

  Memorable, Computer, Said

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• I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Atheist, College

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• There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reality, Knowing Who You Are, Quotation Marks

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• Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Business Success, Investing

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• Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

  Willis Regier

  War, Book, Men

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• Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

  Willis Regier

  Eye, Sagging, Bears

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

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• Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.

  Warren Buffett

  Silly, Thinking, Availability

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughing, Stories, Laugh Often

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• I honestly think that it was when the actual voices started to stand up for me. It was the iconic artists like Tony Bennett or Barbara Streisand or Liza Minnelli. When people like that take you under their wing and say in quotations, "He's the next one. He's got my stamp of approval," people trust them.

  Michael Buble

  Artist, Thinking, Wings

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Ideas, People

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• Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Uplifting, Ideas, Focus

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 15, 2011

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