Quoting Quotes - Page 4

• The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

  Dave Barry

  Government, Here I Am, Paper

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

  Mortimer Adler

  Men, Justice, Trying

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• Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

  Susie Bright

  Christian, Prayer, Book

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• I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely that I haven't noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.

  Paul Kengor

  Cities, Shining, Valleys

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics - I'm almost quoting him - he said, we don't talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Jobs, Team

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well, I'm just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks.

  Hillary Clinton

  Competition, Nuclear, Asia

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• Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Self, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!

  Talib Kweli

  Hate, College, People

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• I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

  James Horner

  Art, Doctors, Metaphor

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• Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Men, Piano

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• I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

  Carly Fiorina

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

  Oscar Wilde

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• You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Be Careful, Slander, Careful

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• Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

  Pompey

  Law, Weapons

  "Life of Pompey". Book By Plutarch, transl. by John Dryden, 75 A.C.E..

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• The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Book, Quarrels, Quotations

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.177

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• ...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

  Andrew Sullivan

  President, Politics, Sids

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• Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

  H. G. Wells

  Delight, Statistics, Scripture

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.6276, Delphi Classics

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• All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Bird, Crow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1661, Delphi Classics

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• Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

  Joy Fielding

  Home, Florida, Waiting Rooms

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• I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.

  Ashley Rickards

  Memories, People, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Brush up your Shakespeare,
  Start quoting him now,
  Brush up your Shakespeare
  And the women you will wow.

  Cole Porter

  Wow, Brushes

  "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (song) (1948)

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• It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.

  Chris Hayes

  Political, Narrative, Tvs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

  Ihab Hassan

  Writing, Speak, Plagiarism

  Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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